On the assimilation of Ku-band scatterometer winds for weather analysis and forecasting

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1893-1902

  Figa, Julia ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^b  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

COST FUNCTION; KU BAND SCATTEROMETER WINDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; WEATHER ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034224534     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851772     Document Type: Article

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