Impact of direct and indirect assimilation of DWR reflectivity on the simulation of heavy rainfall events over Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
To improve the understanding and prediction of convective storms over the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), the National Center for Meteorology (NCM) established a network of Doppler weather radars (DWRs) across the country in 2009. Despite this advancement, assimilation of DWR observations into numerical weather predicti...