Impact of Variational Data Assimilation for Simulating Tropical Cyclones over Bay of Bengal Using WRF-ARW - Monitoring and Prediction of Tropical Cyclones in the Indian Ocean and Climate Change - page 236

Fig. 3: Comparison of Simulated Vector track from different experiments for
six tropical cyclones over BoB with IMD best track.
suggests that control experiment overestimates the intensity. The CSLP errors
with 3DVAR are noted to be reduced to 2 hPa, 3 hPa, 13.4 hPa, 11.6 hPa and 3
hPa respectively at the corresponding integration times demonstrating
substantial improvements (reduction of 36%, 37%, 34%, 32%, 40% at 12, 24,