Assessment of the data assimilation framework for the prototype Rapid Refresh Forecast System and impacts on forecasts of convective storms

The compressed file contains the data and scripts necessary for the numerical experiments conducted in this research and the processing and visualization of the results. It includes the namelist files used for the model when using cold and warm start, the analyses in each experiment, and the grid, topography and surface climatology along with the model configuration file, the file used in the analyses to read the horizontal and vertical scales from an external file, all scripts used to execute every task of the workflow, all scripts used to process model outputs with MET, as well as all scripts and data used to create all figures of the paper.