Before revision:  Here, the blended modelling strategy by Benacchio et al.  (2014) is upgraded in an advanced numerical framework and extended with a Bayesian local ensemble data assimilation method.
After revision:  Here, the blended modelling strategy by Benacchio et al. , MWR, vol. 142 (2014) is upgraded in an advanced numerical framework and extended with a Bayesian local ensemble data assimilation method.