The HWRF Hurricane Ensemble Data Assimilation System (HEDAS) for high-resolution data: The impact of airborne doppler radar observations in an OSSE

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1843-1862

  Aksoy, Altuǧ ^a,b   Lorsolo, Sylvie ^a,b   Vukicevic, Tomislava ^b   Sellwood, Kathryn J ^a,b   Aberson, Sim D ^b   Zhang, Fuqing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Hurricanes; Mesoscale models; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER WINDS; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLES; FORECAST ERRORS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; HURRICANE RESEARCH; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL SPACES; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; OBSERVATION SPACE; RADIAL WINDS; SQUARE ROOTS; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR STATISTICS; HURRICANES; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84864857083     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00212.1     Document Type: Article

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