Assimilating GOES brightness temperatures. Part I: Upper-tropospheric moisture

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-27

  Raymond, William H ^a   Wade, Gary S ^b   Zapotocny, Tom H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Office of Research and Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERE;

GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE (GOES); RADIATIVE MODELS;

METEOROLOGY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GOES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 1342268063     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0017:AGBTPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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