The combined impact of future space-based atmospheric sounding instruments on numerical weather-prediction analysis fields: A simulation study

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 129, Issue 593 PART B, 2003, Pages 2741-2760

  Collard, A D ^a   Healy, S B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

IDVar; Satellite observations; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INFRARED RADIATION; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SPACE APPLICATIONS;

RADIO-OCCULTATION;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0141688460     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.124     Document Type: Article

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