The impact of targeted dropwindsonde observations on tropical cyclone intensity forecasts of four weak systems during PREDICT

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2860-2878

  Torn, Ryan D ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; HURRICANES;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ENSEMBLE STANDARD; INTENSITY FORECASTS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; SENSITIVITY METHODS; TROPICAL CYCLONE INTENSITY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84905695841     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00284.1     Document Type: Article

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