Met office unified model tropical cyclone performance following major changes to the initialization scheme and a model upgrade

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1433-1449

  Heming, Julian T ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Data assimilation; Geographic location entity; Model evaluation performance; Model initialization; Models and modeling; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Tropical cyclones; Tropics

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HURRICANES; STORMS; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; MODEL INITIALIZATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

NUMERICAL MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; STORM TRACK; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84994159072     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-16-0040.1     Document Type: Article

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