Effects of Synoptic Surveillance on model forecasts for
Tropical Storm Bonnie.
Quicktime movie of DLM wind analyses
Quicktime movie of DLM wind data
initial
increments
Figure 1a.
Track forecast errors for the no dropwindsonde (NO or NN) and
the all dropwindsonde (AL) runs for the GFS and GFDL models for
the Tropical Storm Bonnie synoptic surveillance missions.
Figure 1b.
Track forecast improvements for the GFS and GFDL
models for the the Tropical Storm Bonnie synoptic surveillance mission.
(a)
(b)
Figure 2.
Forecast errors for the landfall of Tropical Storm Bonnie
at the Vincent/St. George Islands, FL, in the (a) cross- and
(b) along-track directions for the no dropwindsonde (NO or NN) and
the all dropwindsonde (AL) runs for the GFS and GFDL models.