Impact of Assimilating AMSU-A Radiances on Forecasts of 2008 Atlantic Tropical Cyclones Initialized with a Limited-Area Ensemble Kalman Filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4017-4035

  Liu Dr , Zhiquan ^a   Schwartz, Craig S ^a   Snyder, Chris ^a   Ha, So Young ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Hurricanes typhoons; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETIES; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIAS CORRECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; OFFLINE; RADIANCE ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE WINDS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84871894839     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00083.1     Document Type: Article

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