Error analysis of TMI rainfall estimates over ocean for variational data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 128, Issue , 2002, Pages 2129-2144

  Bauer, Peter ^a   Mahfouf, Jean François ^a   Olson, William S ^b   Marzano, Frank S ^c   Michele, Sabatino Di ^d   Tassa, Alessandra ^d   Mugnai, Alberto ^d  

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

^b NASA Goddard Space Flight Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d Istituto di Fisica dell'Atmosfera   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bayesian retrieval; Retrieval errors; Spatial correlation; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR; RADIOMETERS;

DATA ASSIMILATION;

RAIN;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RAINFALL;

EID: 0036653952     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/003590002320603575     Document Type: Article

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