A fast radiative-transfer model for the assimilation of infrared limb radiances from MIPAS

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 608, 2005, Pages 1631-1653

  Bormann, N ^a   Matricardi, M ^a   Healy, S B ^a  

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

Author keywords

Envisat; Observation operator; Stratosphere; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAY TRACING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OBSERVATION OPERATOR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; VARIATION ANALYSIS;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 27644451768     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.75     Document Type: Article

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