Accelerating the EnKF spinup for typhoon assimilation and prediction

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 878-897

  Yang, Shu Chih ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^b   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Kalman filters; Mesoscale forecasting; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMICAL STRUCTURE; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ERROR COVARIANCES; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; MESOSCALE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OPEN WATER; REGIONAL MODEL; RUNNING-IN; SPIN-UP; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84867939206     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00153.1     Document Type: Article

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