ERS scatterometer wind data impact on ECMWF's tropical cyclone forecasts

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1885-1892

  Isaksen, Lars ^a   Stoffelen, Ad ^b  

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

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; SCATTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION; SCATTEROMETER; TROPICAL CYCLONE FORECASTS; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034227174     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851771     Document Type: Article

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