Performance of convection-permitting hurricane initialization and prediction during 2008-2010 with ensemble data assimilation of inner-core airborne Doppler radar observations

Physics & Astronomy

• airborne radar 100%
• hurricanes 93%
• Doppler radar 88%
• radar tracking 86%
• assimilation 82%
• forecasting 48%
• convection 47%
• predictions 29%
• performance 24%
• Kalman filters 18%
• central processing units 7%
• prototypes 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• inner core 69%
• Doppler radar 65%
• permitting 55%
• data assimilation 54%
• hurricane 53%
• convection 42%
• forecast 28%
• prediction 27%
• Kalman filter 16%
• Hurricane Ike 2008 14%
• forecasting 6%
• radar 5%
• demand 5%