Assimilating airborne Doppler radar observations with an ensemble Kalman filter for convection-permitting hurricane initialization and prediction: Katrina (2005)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 841-859

  Weng, Yonghui ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Radars Radar observations; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; AIRBORNE RADARS; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; CONTROL PROCEDURES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST UNCERTAINTY; HURRICANE KATRINA; IN-SITU; KATRINA; LEAD TIME; OPERATIONAL FORECASTS; RADIAL VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS; REAL-TIME TRANSMISSIONS; REMOTELY-SENSED OBSERVATIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; REMOTE SENSING; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EID: 84863229684     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3602.1     Document Type: Article

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