Naval research laboratory multiscale targeting guidance for T-PARC and TCS-08

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 526-544

  Reynolds, Carolyn A ^a   Doyle, James D ^a   Hodur, Richard M ^b   Jin, Hao ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Pacific ocean; Singular vectors; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RESPONSE; ADJOINT SYSTEM; ADJOINTS; COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; INITIAL STATE; LEAD TIME; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MICROPHYSICS; MULTISCALES; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; NAVY OPERATIONAL GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC PREDICTION SYSTEMS; NORTH PACIFIC; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCHES; PACIFIC OCEAN; SINGULAR VECTORS; TARGETED OBSERVING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE PREDICTIONS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

CEMENTS; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; STORMS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTION; RESEARCH WORK; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77955525170     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222292.1     Document Type: Article

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