Assimilating AMSU-A radiances in the TC core area with NOAA operational HWRF (2011) and a hybrid data assimilation system: Danielle (2010)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3889-3907

  Zhang, Man ^a   Zupanski, Milija ^a   Kim, Min Jeong ^a   Knaff, John A ^b  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ENSEMBLE FILTER; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

ERROR STATISTICS; HURRICANES; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMSU; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERPOLATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NOAA SATELLITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84888423427     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00340.1     Document Type: Article

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