Assimilation of coastal Doppler radar data with the ARPS 3DVAR and cloud analysis for the prediction of Hurricane Ike (2008)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Zhao, Kun ^a,b   Xue, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD ANALYSIS; CLOUD-RESOLVING; COASTAL RADARS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; INTENSITY PREDICTION; LANDFALLING; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RADAR DATA; RADIAL VELOCITY; REFLECTIVITY DATA;

DOPPLER RADAR; REFLECTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HURRICANE IKE 2008; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADIAL FLOW; REFLECTIVITY; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 68749099447     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL038658     Document Type: Article

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