Observing System Evaluation: OSSE assessment of Assimilating Rapid-Response Pre-Storm Airborne Ocean Profiler Survey for Improving Ocean Model Initialization in Coupled Hurricane Prediction System
George R Halliwell Jr1, Vassiliki Kourafalou2, Michael F Mehari3, Robert M Atlas4, HeeSook Kang5, Matthieu Le Henaff6,7, Ioannis Androulidakis5, Lynn K Shay8 and Jili Dong9, (1)NOAA Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (2)Univ of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (3)Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies Miami, NOAA/AOML/PhOD, Miami, FL, United States, (4)NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, Miami, FL, United States, (5)University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (6)CIMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States, (7)NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, PhOD, Miami, FL, United States, (8)RSMAS/University of Miami, Department of Ocean Sciences, Miami, FL, United States, (9)National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States
