Assimilation of radar radial velocity data with the wrf hybrid ensemble-3dvar system for the prediction of hurricane ike (2008)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3507-3524

  Li, Yongzuo ^a   Wang Xuguang, X ^a   Xue, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Hurricanes typhoons; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; COASTAL RADARS; COASTAL WEATHER; CONTROL VARIABLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; ENSEMBLES; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; HYBRID ANALYSIS; HYBRID METHOD; HYBRID SCHEME; INNER CORE; INTENSITY ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE VALUES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RADAR DATA; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; RADIAL VELOCITY; TEMPERATURE INCREMENT; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VORTEX CENTERS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WIND FORECASTS;

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; HYBRID SYSTEMS; RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE IKE 2008; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84867026914     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00043.1     Document Type: Article

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