Influence of airborne Doppler wind lidar profiles near Typhoon Sinlaku on ECMWF and NOGAPS forecasts

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 662, 2012, Pages 118-130

  Weissmann, M ^a,b   Langland, R H ^c   Cardinali, C ^d   Pauley, P M ^c   Rahm, S ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; DWL; Observation impact; T PARC; THORPEX

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DWL; OBSERVATION IMPACT; T-PARC; THORPEX;

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; HURRICANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRBORNE SENSING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOSONDE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 84856212765     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.896     Document Type: Article

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