ETKF and Targeting


Bishop, Craig H., Toth, Zoltan, 1999: Ensemble Transformation and Adaptive Observations. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 1748-1765

______, CraigH, Etherton, Brian J. and Majumdar, Sharanya J., 2001:  Adaptive Sampling with the Ensemble Transform Kahlman Filter. Part I: Theoretical Aspects. Monthly Weather Review, 129, 420-436

Langland, R. H. Toth, Z., Gelaro, R., Szunyogh, I., Shapiro, M.A., Majumdar, S.J., Morss, R.E., ROhaly, G.D., Velden, C., Bond, N. and Bishop, C.H., 1999: The North Pacific Experiment (NORPEX - 98): Targeted Observations for Improved North American Weather Forecasts. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 80, 1363-1384

Majumdar, S. J., Bishop, C. H., and Etherton, B.J., 2002: Adaptive Sampling with the Ensemble Transform Kahlman Filter. Part II: Field Program Implementation. Monthly Weather Review, 130, 1356-1369

_______, Bishop, C.H., Etherton, B.J., Szunyogh, I. and Toth, Z., 2001: Can an Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter Predict the Reduction in Forecast Error Variance Produced by Targeted Observations? Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 127, 2803-2820

_______, Bishop, C.H., Buizza, R. and Gelaro, R., 2002: A Comparison of Ensemble - Transform Kalman-Filter Targeting Guidance with ECMWF and NRL Total-Energy Singular-Vector Guidance. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 128, 2527-2549

Szunyogh, I., Toth, Z., Emanuel, K.A., Bishop, C.H., Snyder, C., Morss, R.E., Woolen, J. and Marchok, T., 1999: Ensemble-Based Targeting Experiments During FASTEX: The Effect of Dropsonde Data from the Lear Jet. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 125, 3189-3217

________, Toth, Z., Morss, R.E., Majumdar, S.J., Etherton, B.J. and Bishop, C.H., 2000: The Effect of Targeted Dropsonde Observations during the 1999 Winter Storm Reconnaissnace Program. Monthly Weather Review, 128, 3520-3537

________, Toth, Zoltan., Zimin, Aleksey, Majumdar, Sharanya J. and Persson, Anders, 2002: Propagation of the Effect of Targeted Observations: The 2000 Winter Storm Reconnaissance Program. Monthly Weather Review, 130, 1144-1164

Downstream Development and Storm Tracks

Chang, Edmund K.M., 1993: Downstream Development of Baroclinic Waves as Inferred from Regression Analysis. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50, 2038-2053

_______, and Orlanski, Isidoro, 1993: On the Dynamics of a Storm Track. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50, 999-1015

Hoskins, Brian J. adn Valdes, Paul J., 1990: On the Existence of Storm-Tracks. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 47. 1854-1864

Orlanski, I., and Sheldon, J., 1993: A Case of Downstream Development over Western North America. Monthly Weather Review, 121, 2929-2949

________, and Chang, Edmund K.M., 1993: Ageostrophic Geopotential Fluxes in Downstream and Upstream Development of Baroclinic Waves. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 50, 212-225

Persson, Anders, 1995: Downstream Development - a Meteorological Soap. The Barometer, 135-141

Wallace, John M., Lim, Gyu-Ho and Blackmon, Maurice, 1988: Relationship between Cyclone Tracks, Anticylone Tracks and Baroclinic Waveguides. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 45, 439-462

Wave Packets

Chang, Edmund K.M. and Yu, Daniel B., 1999: Characteristics of Wave Packets in the Upper Troposhere. Part I: Northern Hemisphere Winter. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 1708-1728

Zimin, Aleksey V., Szunyogh, Istvan, Patil, D.J., Hunt, Brian R., and Ott, Edward, 2003: Extracting Envelopes of Rossby Wave Packets. Monthly Weather Review, Notes and Correspondence, 131, 1011-1017

Singular Vectors

Buizza, R. and Montani, A., 1999:  Targerting Observations Using Singular Vectors.  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 56, 2965-2985

Gelaro, R., Langland, R.H., Rohaly, G.D. and Rosmond, T.E., 1999: An Assessment of the Singular-Vector Approach to Targeted Observing Using the FASTEX Dataset. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 125, 3299-3327

Numerical Prediction

Charney,  J.G., 1949: On a Physical Basis for Numerical Prediction of Large-Scale Motions in the Atmosphere. Journal of Meteorology, 6, 77-91

Gilmour, Ilsa, Smith, Leonard A., and Buizza, Roberto, 2001: Linear Regime Duration: Is 24 Hours a Long Time in Synoptic Weather Forecasting? Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 58, 3525-3539

Parrish, David F. and Derber, John C., 1992: The National Meteorological Center's Spectral Statistical-Interpolation Analysis System. Monthly Weather Review, 120, 1747-1763