Impact of airborne Doppler wind lidar profiles on numerical simulations of a tropical cyclone

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Pu, Zhaoxia ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Emmitt, G David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b SIMPSON WEATHER ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; DOPPLER WIND LIDAR; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; ITS DATA; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIATIONAL METHODS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; HURRICANES; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RADAR; RESEARCH; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; HURRICANE EVENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 77949300303     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041765     Document Type: Article

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