The impact of Dropwindsonde Observations on typhoon track forecasts in DOTSTAR and T-PARC

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1728-1743

  Chou, Kun Hsuan ^a   Wu, Chun Chieh ^b   Lin, Po Hsiung ^b   Aberson, Sim D ^c   Weissmann, Martin ^d   Harnisch, Florian ^d   Nakazawa, Tetsuo ^e  

^a CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Dropsondes; Field experiments; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DROPSONDES; FIELD EXPERIMENT; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; MONITORING; STORMS;

FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; INSTRUMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; STORM TRACK; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 79959592808     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3582.1     Document Type: Article

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