Impact of GSI analysis on forecasts of Typhoon Meranti (2016) in HWRF

Masahiro Sawada1,2, Zaizhong Ma2, Banglin Zhang2, Avichal Mehra3, Vijay Tallapragada4, Ryo Oyama1 and Kazuki Shimoji5, (1)Meteorological Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan, (2)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)NOAA, National Weather Service, Ocean Prediction Center, College Park, United States, (4)NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, United States, (5)Meteorological Satellite Center, Tokyo, Japan