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Data assimilation

Team Leader: Sim Aberson (AOML/HRD)

Team members:
Robert Rogers (AOML/HRD)
S.G.Gopalakrishnan (AOML/HRD)
Kathryn Sellwood (UM/CIMAS)
Mark Powell (AOML/HRD)
Bachir Annane (UM/CIMAS)
Shirley Murillo (AOML/HRD)
Kevin Yeh (UM/CIMAS)
Carlisle Thacker (AOML/PhOD)
Altug Aksoy (UM/CIMAS)

Collaborators (Points of Contact):
Sharan Majumdar (UM/RSMAS)
Brian Etherton (UNCC)
Fuqing Zhang (PSU)
Tom Hamill (ESRL)
Jeff Whitaker (ESRL)
John McGinley (ESRL)
Nikki Prive (ESRL)
Yuanfu Xie (ESRL)

Objectives:
Improvement of tropical cyclone forecasts through improvement of initial conditions for numerical weather prediction models by:

• improving the assimilation of observations, especially core observations from aircraft, into numerical models

• providing improved data sets for other research projects.

Methods:
This will be accomplished by, in all available basins by:

• Testing various techniques for data assimilation (eg. LAPS, STMAS, 3DVAR, 4DVAR, EnKF) for convective-scale tropical cyclone core data assimilation.

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Last modified: 5/23/2008