Predictability and genesis of Hurricane Karl (2010) examined through the EnKF assimilation of field observations collected during PREDICT

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1260-1275

  Poterjoy, Jonathan ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS; DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; OBSERVATION NETWORKS; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURES;

FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE; KALMAN FILTER; PREDICTION; VORTEX;

EID: 84897435990     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: 15200469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-13-0291.1     Document Type: Article

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