Ensemble Kalman filter assimilation of HIWRAP observations of Hurricane Karl (2010) from the unmanned Global Hawk aircraft

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 142, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 4559-4580

  Sippel, Jason A ^a,b   Zhang, Fuqing ^c   Weng, Yonghui ^c   Tian, Lin ^a,b   Heymsfield, Gerald M ^a   Braun, Scott A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Hurricanes typhoons; Kalman filters; Mesoscale models; Radars Radar observations

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; DOPPLER RADAR; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; NASA; RADAR;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; HURRICANES/TYPHOONS; MESO-SCALE MODELS; RADARS/RADAR OBSERVATIONS;

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; AZIMUTH; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; HURRICANE EVENT; KALMAN FILTER; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY;

EID: 84916234315     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00042.1     Document Type: Article

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