Intercomparison of targeted observation guidance for tropical cyclones in the Northwestern Pacific

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2471-2492

  Wu, Chun Chieh ^a   Chen, Jan Huey ^a   Majumdar, Sharanya J ^b   Peng, Melinda S ^c   Reynolds, Carolyn A ^c   Aberson, Sim D ^d   Buizza, Roberto ^e   Yamaguchi, Munehiko ^f   Chen, Shin Gan ^a   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^f   Chou, Kun Hsian ^g  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^g CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT METHODS; ADJOINTS; DYNAMIC SYSTEMS; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; ENSEMBLE METHODS; GLOBAL MODELS; INTERCOMPARISONS; MIDLATITUDES; MULTI-MODEL ENSEMBLE; OPTIMAL SENSITIVITY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SENSITIVITY REGION; SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; SINGULAR VECTORS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; STEERING VECTOR; SUBTROPICAL JET; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CONTROL THEORY; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS; WIND POWER;

HURRICANES;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

DURIO ZIBETHINUS;

EID: 68249145747     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2762.1     Document Type: Article

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