Storm-relative observations in tropical cyclone data assimilation with an ensemble kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 506-522

  Aksoy, Altuǧ ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Data assimilation; Hurricanes; Kalman filters; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER RADAR; KALMAN FILTERS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORMS;

HURRICANES;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STORM; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84874962936     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00094.1     Document Type: Article

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