Fig. 6 Initial condition differences in the vertically averaged 850 - 200 hPa winds between the GSNO and GSAL cases, 25 October 1998 0000 UTC. The large hurricane symbol is the location of Hurricane Mitch at the nominal time. The small hurricane symbols are the locations of Mitch every 12 h previous and after the nominal time. The black dots represent the locations of targeted dropwindsonde observations; open circles represent the remaining observations.


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