Evaluation of the advanced hurricane WRF data assimilation system for the 2009 atlantic hurricane season

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 523-541

  Cavallo, Steven M ^a   Torn, Ryan D ^b   Snyder, Chris ^a   Davis, Christopher ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Done, James ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Mesoscale models; Model evaluation performance; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; MESO-SCALE MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

DATA ACQUISITION; ERRORS; HURRICANES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; CUMULUS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PARAMETERIZATION; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84871880523     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00139.1     Document Type: Article

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