Interpretation of adaptive observing guidance for Atlantic tropical cyclones

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4006-4029

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

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR STATISTICS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANALYSIS ERROR VARIANCE; ATLANTIC TROPICAL CYCLONE; ENSEMBLE TRANSFORM KALMAN FILTER; TOTAL-ENERGY SINGULAR VECTORS;

STORMS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; PERTURBATION; PREDICTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 38049117728     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2027.1     Document Type: Article

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