Improving the ocean initialization of coupled hurricane - Ocean models using feature-based data assimilation

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2592-2607

  Yablonsky, Richard M ^a   Ginis, Isaac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BEST ESTIMATE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; FORECAST MODELS; GULF OF MEXICO; HURRICANE PREDICTION; IN-SITU; LOOP CURRENT; LOOP CURRENT EDDIES; MESO-SCALE; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NAVOCEANO; NEAR-REAL TIME; OCEAN MODELLING; OCEAN TEMPERATURES; OCEANIC HEAT CONTENT; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; RELATIVE-ACCURACY; RHODE ISLAND; RMS ERRORS; SALINITY CLIMATOLOGY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPERATURE FIELDS; TEMPERATURE PROFILING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL PROFILING;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HURRICANE; MODELING; SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 52149100052     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2166.1     Document Type: Article

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