Assimilation of high-resolution tropical cyclone observations with an ensemble kalman filter using HEDAS: Evaluation of 2008-11 HWRF forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 143, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 511-523

  Aberson, Sim D ^a   Aksoy, Altuğ ^b   Sellwood, Kathryn J ^b   Vukicevic, Tomislava ^a   Zhang, Xuejin ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR NAVIGATION; AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; DOPPLER RADAR; FIGHTER AIRCRAFT; FORECASTING; HURRICANES; KALMAN FILTERS; RADAR; TROPICS; WIND;

AIRBORNE DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; IMPROVED FORECAST; INTENSITY FORECASTS; QUALITY OF DATA; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NOAA SATELLITE; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84928911437     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-14-00138.1     Document Type: Article

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