The effects of sampling errors on the EnKF assimilation of inner-core hurricane observations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1609-1630

  Poterjoy, Jonathan ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a   Weng, Yonghui ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Kalman filters; Mesoscale forecasting; Model initialization; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; DOPPLER RADAR; ERRORS; FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; SAMPLING; VORTEX FLOW;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; MESOSCALE FORECASTING; MODEL INITIALIZATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRESSURE FIELD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84897409908     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00305.1     Document Type: Article

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