Including uncertainties of sea surface temperature in an ensemble kalman filter: A case study of typhoon sinlaku (2008)

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1586-1597

  Kunii, Masaru ^a   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PERTURBATION; ENSEMBLE-BASED FORECASTS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST PERTURBATIONS; STRUCTURAL EFFECT; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; MOISTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TYPHOON; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84874836352     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00136.1     Document Type: Article

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