2005 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Decision of the Center of a Tropical Cyclone over China Coastal Waters Using a Doppler Radar
Authors : Yinglong Xu, Meiyan Jiao, Baogui Bi, Tao Chang
Published in: Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Using the Doppler radar radial velocity data simulated by Rankine combined vortex and observed by a Doppler radar and typhoon yearbooks, the applied study about the objective positioning methods of a typhoon was made. Two methods had been established. A series of simulated and actual tests were made for the two methods. The results show that the errors of the two methods in simulated tests are below 0.5 ∼ 1 km and those of radial maximum wind are below 0.12 km. Compared to the best operational track data, the errors of the two algorithms in actual tests are below 3 ∼ 13 km, sometimes those are below 3 km. So it is feasible to decide the center of a tropical cyclone with the data of a single Doppler radar radial velocity in operational tropical cyclone positioning. The positioning results of the two methods are of important reference and guidance in operational tropical cyclone forecasting and warning.