An Observing System Experiment for typhoon Conson (2004) using a singular vector method and DOTSTAR data

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2801-2816

  Yamaguchi, Munehiko ^a,d   Iriguchi, Takeshi ^a   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^b   Wu, Chun Chieh ^c  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; INITIAL POSITION; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; SINGULAR VECTORS; TYPHOON SURVEILLANCE;

ATMOSPHERICS; EXPERIMENTS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350336075     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2683.1     Document Type: Article

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