A comparison of adaptive observing guidance for atlantic tropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2354-2372

  Majumdar, Sharanya J ^a   Aberson, S D ^b   Bishop, C H ^c   Buizza, R ^d   Peng, M S ^c   Reynolds, C A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; KALMAN FILTERING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM KALMAN FILTER (ETKF); MIDLATITUDE ADAPTIVE OBSERVING PROGRAMS; TOTAL-ENERGY SINGULAR VECTORS (TESVS);

STORMS;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33749037435     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3193.1     Document Type: Article

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