Impact of satellite observations on the tropical cyclone track forecasts of the navy operational global atmospheric prediction system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-50

  Goerss, James S ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; ATLANTIC OCEANS; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NAVY OPERATIONAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION SYSTEMS; NORTH PACIFIC; NUMBER OF DATUM; OBSERVATIONAL DATUM; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; PRECIPITABLE WATERS; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETER; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; TROPICAL CYCLONES; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERICS; EXPERIMENTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SOUNDING APPARATUS; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 64149105946     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2601.1     Document Type: Article

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