Articles | Volume 10, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4419-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-4419-2017
Development and technical paper
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05 Dec 2017
Development and technical paper |  | 05 Dec 2017

The ABC model: a non-hydrostatic toy model for use in convective-scale data assimilation investigations

Ruth Elizabeth Petrie, Ross Noel Bannister, and Michael John Priestley Cullen

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AR by Ross Bannister on behalf of the Authors (27 Aug 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Sep 2017) by James Maddison
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (06 Oct 2017)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (20 Oct 2017) by James Maddison
AR by Ross Bannister on behalf of the Authors (26 Oct 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Short summary
The model and experiments in this paper are to study atmospheric flows on small (kilometre) scales. Compared to larger-scale flows, kilometre-scale motion is more difficult to predict, and geophysical balances are less valid. For these reasons, data assimilation (or DA, the task of using observations to initialise models) is more difficult, as the character of forecast errors (which have to be corrected by DA) is more difficult to represent. This model will be used to study small-scale DA.