On the initialization of tropical cyclones with a three dimensional variational analysis

Natural Hazards

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1375-1391

  Liou, Chi Sann ^a   Sashegyi, Keith D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

3DVAR analysis for tropical cyclones; Synthetic observations; Tropical cyclone initialization; Vortex relocation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STORM TRACK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTICITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84864384001     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9838-0     Document Type: Article

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