Observational undersampling in tropical cyclones and implications for estimated intensity

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 825-840

  Uhlhorn, Eric W ^a   Nolan, David S ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Hurricanes; Sampling

Indexed keywords

AVERAGED MODELS; EYEWALL; HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL SIMULATION; HURRICANE ISABEL; MAXIMUM WIND SPEED; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; PEAK WIND SPEED; SAMPLING METHOD; SPATIAL SCALE; STEPPED-FREQUENCY; STORM INTENSITY; SURFACE WIND SPEED; SURFACE WINDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; UNDER-SAMPLING; VIRTUAL AIRCRAFTS; WIND SPEED;

HURRICANES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; SAMPLING; STORMS;

WIND EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANE ISABEL 2003; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SAMPLING; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84857987639     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00073.1     Document Type: Article

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