Expected use of the ADEOS-II AMSR and the Aqua AMSR-E data to numerical weather predictions

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5234, Issue , 2004, Pages 505-516

  Takeuchi, Yoshiaki ^a   Tauchi, Toshiharu ^a   Sato, Yoshiaki ^a   Kachi, Misako ^b   Ozawa, Eiji ^a   Tada, Hideo ^a  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Microwave remote sensing; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; DATA ACQUISITION; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SEAWATER; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1942504059     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.510993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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