Typhoon-position-oriented sensitivity analysis. part I: Theory and verification

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 70, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2525-2546

  Ito, Kosuke ^a,b   Wu, Chun Chieh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; VORTICITY;

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE SIMULATION; FORECAST SENSITIVITY; HORIZONTAL GRID SPACING; INITIAL PERTURBATION; LONG TERM ANALYSIS; POSITION-ORIENTED;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TYPHOON;

EID: 84883795970     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-12-0301.1     Document Type: Article

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