High Definition Sounding System (HDSS) for atmospheric profiling
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Black, Peter
Harrison, Lee
Beaubien, Mark
Jeffries, William
Bluth, Robert
Jonsson, Haflidi
Penny, Andrew
Smith, Robert W.
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2014
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Widely-used Tropical Cyclone (TC) models include regional air-sea coupled dynamical models
such as COAMPS-TC (Hao, et al, 2013), HWRF (Tallapragada, et al., 2014; Kim, et al., 2014)
and GFDL (Bender et al., 2007; Gall, et al., 2011), global dynamical models such as GFS and
ECMWF, and statistical-dynamical intensity-prediction models such as SHIPS, STIPS, L-GEM,
RII (DeMaria and Kaplan, 1999; DeMaria, et al., 2005; Knaff et al., 2005; Jones, et al., 2006;
DeMaria, 2009; DeMaria, 2010; Kaplan, et al., 2010). All of these models benefit from improved
3-D spatial observational plus enhanced temporal resolution, i.e. better 4-D capability. The need
for enhanced 4-D profile observations is driven by the need for enhanced model resolution of the
physics of small-scale processes such as convective events, boundary layer air-sea transfer
processes and upper troposphere outflow jets. These requirements demand a concurrent
enhancement in 4-D profile observational capability at finer spatial and temporal scales.
Observations and observational strategies for initial condition specification and forecast
validation within and around TCs require continual improvement to match these model demands
while providing a basis for improvements in process understanding and parameterization on
increasingly smaller scales.
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Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely Piloted Aircraft Studies
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Naval Postgraduate School
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24 p.
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