Assimilation of GBVTD-retrieved winds from single-Doppler radar for short-term forecasting of super typhoon Saomai (0608) at landfall

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 138, Issue 665, 2012, Pages 1055-1071

  Zhao, Kun ^a,b   Xue, Ming ^a,b   Lee, Wen Chau ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

GBVTD retrieval; Radar data assimilation; Typhoon prediction

Indexed keywords

AXISYMMETRIC; CIRCULATION PATTERNS; DATA COVERAGE; GBVTD RETRIEVAL; GROUND BASED; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTENSITY ANALYSIS; INTENSITY PREDICTION; JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCIES; LANDFALLING; MEAN-WINDS; MESOSCALE; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RADAR DATA ASSIMILATION; RADIAL VELOCITY; RADIAL WINDS; REANALYSIS; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; TANGENTIAL WIND; TEST CASE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE PREDICTIONS; WAVE NUMBERS; WIND COMPONENTS; WIND RETRIEVALS;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY; WIND;

HURRICANES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; WENZHOU; ZHEJIANG;

EID: 84862170130     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.975     Document Type: Article

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