Performance of a dynamic initialization scheme in the coupled ocean-atmosphere mesoscale prediction system for tropical cyclones (COAMPS-TC)

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 650-663

  Hendricks, Eric A ^a   Peng, Melinda S ^a   Ge, Xuyang ^b   Li, Tim ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Mesoscale models; Model errors

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE; COUPLED OCEAN ATMOSPHERE MESOSCALE PREDICTION SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; INTENSITY FORECASTS; LEAD TIME; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL ERRORS; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUMERICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; SURFACE PRESSURES; SURFACE WINDS; SYNTHETIC DATA; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; STORMS; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 81855185880     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-10-05051.1     Document Type: Article

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