To improve understanding of essential aspects that influence forecasting of tropical cyclones
(TCs), the National Key Research and Development Program, Ministry of Science and …

Aberson, SD, and JL Franklin, 1999: Impact on hurricane track and intensity forecasts of
GPS dropwindsonde observations from the first-season flights of the NOAA Gulfstream-IV jet …

Although numerous studies have demonstrated that increasing model spatial resolution in
free forecasts can potentially improve tropical cyclone (TC) intensity forecasts, studies on the …

The analyses produced by intermittent data assimilation methods can be dynamically
inconsistent and unbalanced. By gradually distributing the analysis increment along model …

There have been no high-frequency aircraft observations of tropical cyclone (TC) eyewall
boundary layer turbulence since two flights into Atlantic hurricanes in the 1980s. We present …

Short-term spinup for strong storms is a known difficulty for the operational Hurricane
Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) Model after assimilating high-resolution inner …

Six-hourly three-dimensional ensemble variational (3DEnVar)(6H-3DEnVar) data
assimilation (DA) assumes constant background error covariance (BEC) during a six-hour …

Hurricane Patricia (2015) over the eastern Pacific was a record‐breaking tropical cyclone
(TC) under a very favorable environment during its rapid intensification (RI) period, which …

Ensemble clustering analysis was performed to explore the role of the initial hurricane vortex‐
scale wind structure in the prediction of the intensification of Hurricane Patricia (2015) …

Aksoy, A., SD Aberson, T. Vukicevic, KJ Sellwood, S. Lorsolo, and XJ Zhang, 2013:
Assimilation of high-resolution tropical cyclone observations with an ensemble Kalman filter …