ONR Tropical Cyclone Motion Research Initiative: Data Assimilation Considerations for Field Experiment Analyses

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research Tropical Cyclone Motion initiative is a five-year program to improve understanding of tropical cyclone motion. On 31 August-1 September 1989, a workshop was held in Monterey, California to consider the characteristics of data assimilation systems for tropical analyses. The focus is on special considerations that might apply in preparing a set of final analyses of the observations to be obtained in the Tropical Cyclone Motion field experiment during August and September 1990. The basic characteristics of the analysis grid, handling of the special experimental observations, objective analysis considerations, data assimilation procedures, inclusion of bogus observations, initialization techniques, and other considerations are summarized. Keywords: Meteorological studies; Cyclones; Tropical cyclone motion; Data assimilation; Typhoon motion. (kt)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215726

Entities

People

  • Russell L. Elsberry

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Control Systems
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Gravity Waves
  • Grids
  • Heat Energy
  • High Resolution
  • Latent Heat
  • Meteorological Satellites
  • Meteorology
  • Quality Control
  • Research Aircraft
  • Research Facilities
  • Three Dimensional
  • Tropical Cyclones
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Control Systems Engineering.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers