Impact of airborne Doppler wind lidar profiles on numerical simulations of a tropical cyclone

摘要

[2] Due to a lack of conventional observations over the open ocean, forecasting tropical cyclone (ТС) formation and intensification is one of the great challenges in modem Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP). In order to better understand the dynamics and physical processes that control the formation and intensification of TCs, and also to explore the effectiveness of observing systems in improving the predictability of TCs and many other weather phenomena, there have been many field programs conducted over the Atlantic and Western Pacific areas [e.g., Houze et al., 2006; Elsberry and Harr, 2008] in recent years.