Characteristics of Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter adaptive sampling guidance for tropical cyclones

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 655, 2011, Pages 503-520

  Majumdar, Sharanya J ^a   Chen, Shin Gan ^b   Wu, Chun Chieh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Targeted observations; Typhoon Sinlaku

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; AXISYMMETRIC; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; FAR-FIELD; FLOW CONVERGENCE; MIDLATITUDES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SUBTROPICAL RIDGE; TARGETED OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON SINLAKU; UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH;

DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; TROPICS;

HURRICANES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FORECASTING METHOD; JET STREAM; KALMAN FILTER; MONSOON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSFORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON;

EID: 79952524608     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.746     Document Type: Article

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