Impacts of assimilation of ATMS data in HWRF on track and intensity forecasts of 2012 four landfall hurricanes

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 11,558-11,576

  Zou, X ^a   Weng, F ^b   Zhang, B ^c   Lin, L ^c,d   Qin, Z ^a,e   Tallapragada, V ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^d Joint Center for Satellite and Data Assimilation   (United States)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

assimilation; ATMS; Hurricane

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; ASSIMILATION; ATMS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; HURRICANE; HURRICANE EVENT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PREDICTION; RADIANCE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84888169766     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020405     Document Type: Article

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