An improved general fast radiative transfer model for the assimilation of radiance observations

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 596 PART A, 2004, Pages 153-173

  Matricardi, Marco ^a   Chevallier, Frederic ^a   Kelly, Graeme ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noel ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING; ACOUSTIC DEVICES; DATA PROCESSING; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WATER VAPOR;

INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER; RADIATION TRANSFER; WATER VAPOR JACOBIANS;

METEOROLOGY; INFRARED TELEVISION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NOAA SATELLITE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVANCED TIROS OPERATIONAL VERTICAL SOUNDER; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL VERTICAL SOUNDERS; TELEVISION INFRARED OBSERVATION SATELLITES;

EID: 0442280916     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.181     Document Type: Article

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