Predictions of 2010's tropical cyclones using the GFS and ensemble-based data assimilation methods

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3243-3247

  Hamill, Thomas M ^a   Whitaker, Jeffrey S ^a   Kleist, Daryl T ^b   Fiorino, Michael ^a   Benjamin, Stanley G ^a  

^a EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Lightning; Mesoscale forecasting; Operational forecasting; Severe storms

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; HURRICANE SEASON; MESOSCALE; MODEL PHYSICS; MODEL RESOLUTION; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; SEVERE STORMS; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; TRACK ERRORS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIATIONAL ALGORITHMS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

DATA PROCESSING; HURRICANES; HYBRID SYSTEMS; LIGHTNING; STORMS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; LIGHTNING; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 81355138523     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00079.1     Document Type: Article

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