Predicting hurricane intensity and associated hazards: A five-year real-time forecast experiment with assimilation of airborne doppler radar observations

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 25-33

  Zhang, Fuqing ^a   Weng, Yonghui ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RADAR; ERRORS; FORECASTING; HAZARDS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RISK MANAGEMENT;

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; HURRICANE INTENSITY; HURRICANE PREDICTION; INTENSITY FORECASTS; PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; REAL-TIME FORECASTS;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84928538026     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00231.1     Document Type: Review

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