A Study on the reduction of forecast error variance by three adaptive observation approaches for tropical cyclone prediction

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2218-2232

  Qin, Xiaohao ^a   Mu, Mu ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Forecasting techniques; Kalman filters; Optimization; Singular vectors; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; CONDITIONAL NONLINEAR OPTIMAL PERTURBATION; FORECAST ERROR VARIANCE; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; FORECASTING TECHNIQUES; LARGE-SCALE FLOWS; SINGULAR VECTORS; STEERING FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE PREDICTIONS;

HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; OPTIMIZATION; STORMS; TROPICS;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79960710586     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3327.1     Document Type: Article

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