Experiments of hurricane initialization with Airborne Doppler radar data for the Advance Research Hurricane WRF (AHW) model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2758-2777

  Xiao, Qingnong ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyan ^a   Davis, Christopher ^a   Tuttle, John ^a   Holland, Greg ^a   Fitzpatrick, Patrick J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; CLOUD WATER; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; CORE STRUCTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; HURRICANE-INTENSITY FORECAST; INITIAL TIME; INTENSITY FORECASTS; KATRINA; RAINBANDS; RAPID INTENSIFICATION; REFLECTIVITY DATA; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES; TRACK DATA; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; VORTEX DYNAMICS; WEATHER PREDICTION MODEL; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING; WIND DATA; WRF MODEL;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; REFRIGERATORS; RESEARCH; SEA LEVEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HURRICANE; MODELING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350772498     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2828.1     Document Type: Article

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