Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of simulated HIWRAP doppler velocity data in a hurricane

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2683-2704

  Sippel, Jason A ^a   Braun, Scott A ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^b   Weng, Yonghui ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; DOPPLER VELOCITY DATA; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; IMAGING WIND AND RAIN AIRBORNE PROFILERS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; POTENTIAL IMPACTS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RADIAL-VELOCITY OBSERVATIONS;

DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; NASA;

HURRICANES;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84881309598     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00157.1     Document Type: Article

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