Potential vorticity diagnosis of the factors affecting the track of typhoon sinlaku (2008) and the impact from dropwindsonde data during t-parc

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2670-2688

  Wu, Chun Chieh ^a   Chen, Shin Gan ^a   Yang, Chung Chuan ^a   Lin, Po Hsiung ^a   Aberson, Sim D ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Diagnostics; Forecasting

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; PRIMARY FACTORS; STEERING FLOW; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS; VORTEX FLOW; VORTICITY;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; STORM TRACK; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84867931674     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00229.1     Document Type: Article

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