Assimilation of high-resolution tropical cyclone observations with an ensemble kalman filter using NOAA/AOML/HRD's HEDAS: Evaluation of the 2008-11 vortex-scale analyses

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1842-1865

  Aksoy, Altuĝ ^a   Aberson, Sim D ^b   Vukicevic, Tomislava ^b   Sellwood, Kathryn J ^a   Lorsolo, Sylvie ^a   Zhang, Xuejin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft observations; Data assimilation; Ensembles; Kalman filters; Mesoscale models; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; MESO-SCALE MODELS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

KALMAN FILTERS; KINEMATICS; THERMODYNAMICS; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HURRICANES;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE EVENT; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NOAA SATELLITE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX FLOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84880168446     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00194.1     Document Type: Article

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