A dynamical initialization scheme for real-time forecasts of tropical cyclones using the WRF model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 964-986

  Cha, Dong Hyun ^a   Wang, Yuqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Model initialization; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FIELDS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

HURRICANES; VORTEX FLOW;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL TIME; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84875636875     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00077.1     Document Type: Article

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