Dropwindsonde observations for typhoon surveillance near the Taiwan region (DOTSTAR): An overview

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 787-790

  Wu, Chun Chieh ^a   Lin, Po Hsiung ^a   Aberson, Sim ^b   Yeh, Tien Chiang ^c   Huang, Wei Peng ^a   Chou, Kun Hsuan ^a   Hong, Jing Shan ^c   Lu, Guo Chen ^c   Fong, Chin Tzu ^c   Hsu, Kuan Chien ^a   Lin, I I ^a   Lin, Pay Liam ^d   Liu, Ching Hwang ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DROPWINDSONDES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON SURVEILLANCE;

STORMS;

EID: 21844462528     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-86-6-787     Document Type: Review

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