Observations of Gulf of Tehuantepec gap wind events from quikSCAT: An updated event climatology and operational model evaluation

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 646-658

  Brennan, Michael J ^a   Cobb, Hugh D III ^a   Knabb, Richard D ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climatology; Forecast verification; Orographic effects; Wind bursts

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER MIXING; COLD SEASON; GAP WINDS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; MESOSCALE; NORTH AMERICAN; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OCEAN SURFACE VECTOR WINDS; OPERATIONAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; QUICK SCATTEROMETER SATELLITES; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETERS; SEAWINDS; SURFACE FLUX; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VERTICAL RESOLUTION; WIND EVENTS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NASA; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DETECTION METHOD; HURRICANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PROBABILITY; QUIKSCAT; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

GULF OF TEHUANTEPEC; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 77955525477     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222324.1     Document Type: Article

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