Evaluation of potential benefit of assimilation of SEVIRI water vapour radiance data from Meteosat-8 into global numerical weather prediction analyses

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 105-111

  Szyndel, Matthew D E ^a   Kelly, G ^a   Thepaut J N ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Numerical weather prediction; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CLEAR SKY; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 27544446534     PISSN: 1530261X     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.98     Document Type: Article

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