Evaluation of the AIRS near-real-time channel selection for application to numerical weather prediction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 592 PART A, 2003, Pages 2425-2439

  Fourrié, Nadia ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b European Centre for Meadium Range Weather Forecasts   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Reduced AIRS near real time dataset; Validation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA REDUCTION; OZONE; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHANNEL SELECTIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; INFRARED IMAGERY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE SENSOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0043128675     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.210     Document Type: Article

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