Sensitivity of typhoon forecasts to different subsets of targeted dropsonde observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2664-2680

  Harnisch, Florian ^a   Weissmann, Martin ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR RING; DATA DENIAL EXPERIMENTS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; REMOTE REGIONS; SINGULAR VECTORS; SURVEILLANCE MISSIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; ROUGH SET THEORY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 77958508168     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3309.1     Document Type: Article

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