Verification of typhoon forecasts for a 20 km-mesh high-resolution global model

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 669-698

  Murakami, Hiroyuki ^a,c   Matsumura, Takayuki ^b   Sakai, Ryota ^b   Noda, Akira ^c,d   Kusunoki, Shoji ^c  

^a Advanced Earth Science and Technology Organization   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATE; MODEL VALIDATION; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND PROFILE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 58049107306     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.86.669     Document Type: Article

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