The impact of aircraft dropsonde and satellite wind data on numerical simulations of two landfalling tropical storms during the tropical cloud systems and processes experiment

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-79

  Pu, Zhaoxia ^a   Li, Xuanli ^a   Velden, Christopher S ^b   Aberson, Sim D ^c   Liu, W Timothy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

AIRCRAFT DROPSONDE; ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; TROPICAL CLOUD; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

STORMS;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GOES; NSCAT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 41949106142     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2007006.1     Document Type: Article

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