Performance of a mesoscale ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) during the NOAA high-resolution hurricane test

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4375-4392

  Torn, Ryan D ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Hurricanes; Kalman filter; Model evaluation performance

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED RESEARCHES; ATLANTIC BASIN; DYNAMICAL FIELDS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; ERROR GROWTH; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MESOSCALE; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL MODEL; POSITION ERRORS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; SUBTROPICAL RIDGE; TIME-PERIODS; TRACK ERRORS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL DEPRESSIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ERRORS; HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; SEA LEVEL; TROPICS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 78650979599     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3361.1     Document Type: Article

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