The influence of airborne doppler radar data quality on numerical simulations of a tropical cyclone

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 231-239

  Zhang, Lei ^a,d   Pu, Zhaoxia ^a   Lee, Wen Chau ^b   Zhao, Qingyun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Shanghai Typhoon Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Data assimilation

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA COVERAGE; DATA QUALITY; INTENSITY FORECASTS; PRECIPITATION STRUCTURE; QUALITY DATA; RADAR DATA; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; DOPPLER RADAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84863170635     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00028.1     Document Type: Article

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