Geostationary doppler radar and tropical cyclone surveillance

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1185-1191

  Lewis, William E ^a   Im, Eastwood ^b   Tanelli, Simone ^b   Haddad, Ziad ^b   Tripoli, Gregory J ^a   Smith, Eric A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Center for Research on the Changing Earth System   (United States)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Operational forecasting; Radars Radar observations; Short range prediction; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS; INTENSITY ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL FORECASTING; RADIAL VELOCITY; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; SPACEBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; TRACK DISPLAY; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DOPPLER RADAR; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; STORMS; TROPICS;

HURRICANES;

DOPPLER RADAR; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 82955172940     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00060.1     Document Type: Article

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