Impact of airborne doppler radar data assimilation on the numerical simulation of intensity changes of hurricane dennis near a landfall

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3351-3365

  Pu, Zhaoxia ^a   Li, Xuanli ^a   Sun, Juanzhen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; AIRBORNE RADARS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HURRICANE LANDFALL; HURRICANE WARNING; INTENSITY CHANGE; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; RADIAL VELOCITY; SIMULATED STRUCTURE; TROPICAL CLOUDS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND DATA; WIND FIELD;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; NASA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR; REFLECTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE DENNIS 2005; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REFLECTIVITY; STORM TRACK; WARNING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 73549121744     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAS3121.1     Document Type: Article

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