The impact of dropwindsonde data from the THORPEX Pacific Area Regional Campaign and the NOAA Hurricane field program on tropical cyclone forecasts in the global forecast system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2689-2703

  Aberson, Sim D ^a  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dropsondes; Forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

DROPSONDES; DROPWINDSONDES; EAST PACIFIC; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; GLOBAL FORECASTS; GLOBAL IMPACTS; INDIAN OCEAN; INITIAL CONDITIONS; MODEL SYSTEM; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTERS; SURVEILLANCE MISSIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON SURVEILLANCE;

AIRCRAFT DETECTION; FORECASTING; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INSTRUMENTATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 79959615266     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3634.1     Document Type: Article

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