Assimilating TOVS humidity into the GEOS-2 data assimilation system

Journal of Climate

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2983-2995

  Chen, Minghang ^a,b   Rood, Richard B ^a   Joiner, Joanna ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b GENERAL SCIENCES CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MOIST CONVECTION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

CLIMATE FORCING; CLIMATE MODELING; GEOS; HUMIDITY;

EID: 0033208516     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<2983:ATHITG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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