Assimilation of DMSP and TOVS satellite soundings in a Mesoscale Model

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1727-1741

  Powers, Jordan G ^a   Gao, Kun ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 0034518041     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-39.10.1727     Document Type: Article

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