Evaluation of and improvements to the Met Office tropical cyclone initialisation scheme

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 339-351

  Heming, J T ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bogus; Forecast; Hurricane; Numerical model; Track error; Tropical storm; Typhoon

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; STORMS; TROPICS;

BOGUS; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; GLOBAL CONFIGURATION; INITIALISATION TECHNIQUES; TRACK ERRORS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL STORMS; UNIFIED MODELING;

HURRICANES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

EID: 70349435053     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.129     Document Type: Article

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