Recurving tropical cyclones: Singular vector sensitivity and downstream impacts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1320-1337

  Reynolds, Carolyn A ^a   Peng, Melinda S ^a   Chen, Jan Huey ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT MODELS; BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS; FORECAST ERRORS; INITIAL PERTURBATION; INITIAL STATE; LINEAR CALCULATION; LINEAR PERTURBATIONS; NAVY OPERATIONAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PERTURBATIONS; NORTH PACIFIC; SINGULAR VECTORS; STORM CENTER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ATMOSPHERICS; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

STORMS;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CLIMATE MODELING; LINEARITY; NONLINEARITY; PERTURBATION; PREDICTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 68249135343     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008MWR2652.1     Document Type: Article

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