The Impacts of Satellite Remotely Sensed Winds and Total Precipitable Vapour in WRF Tropical Cyclone Track Forecasts

Figure 3

72-hour prediction cycles of Megi (2010) (a) and the corresponding assimilation cycles (b) for assimilating SSM/I at 12 UTC. The reduction of track error from 50 km down to 20 km is very satisfactory considering that the satellite data are of similar spatial resolution.

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