Ambiguity removal and assimilation of scatterometer data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 123, Issue 538, 1997, Pages 491-518

  Stoffelen, A ^a,b   Anderson, D ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Forecast errors; Numerical weather prediction; Satellite remote sensing; Surface wind observations

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY REMOVAL; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERS-1; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; WIND DATA;

EID: 0031435433     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.53811     Document Type: Article

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