A quantitative assessment of the sensitivity of the downstream midlatitude flow response to extratropical transition of tropical cyclones

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 9521-9529

  Grams, Christian M ^a,b   Lang, Simon T K ^a   Keller, Julia H ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

forecast skill; Hurricane Sandy; numerical weather prediction; predictability; Rossby waves; tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; MECHANICAL WAVES; STORMS; TROPICS;

DEGREE OF SENSITIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; EXTRATROPICAL TRANSITION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PREDICTABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; ROSSBY WAVE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CYCLOGENESIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; FLOW PATTERN; FORECASTING METHOD; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; MIDLATITUDE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROSSBY WAVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TRANSITION ZONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

EID: 84955184925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065764     Document Type: Article

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