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Article: The use of digital warping of microwave integrated water vapor imagery to improve forecasts of marine extratropical cyclones
- Article from:
- Monthly Weather Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright American Meteorological Society Jun 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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ABSTRACT
A technique is described in which forecasts of the locations of features associated with marine cyclones may be improved through the use of microwave integrated water vapor (IWV) imagery and image warping of forecast mesoscale model fields. Here, image warping is used to optimally match mesoscale model output to observations of IWV measured by microwave sensors. In the mesoscale model simulations presented here (one of the March 1993 "superstorm," one of a rapidly deepening cyclone observed in the North Atlantic in February 1992, and one of the ERICA IOP 4 cyclone), the Pennsylvania State University-National Center for Atmospheric Research MMS model is initialized from the ...