Assimilation of all-sky infrared radiances from Himawari-8 and impacts of moisture and hydrometer initialization on convection-permitting tropical cyclone prediction

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 146, Issue 10, 2018, Pages 3241-3258

  Minamide, Masashi ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS; VORTEX FLOW;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; PREDICTION OF TROPICAL CYCLONE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; TROPICAL CYCLONE; TROPICAL CYCLONE PREDICTIONS; TROPICAL CYCLONE VORTEX;

HURRICANES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; IRRADIANCE; PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VORTEX;

EID: 85060252716     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0367.1     Document Type: Article

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