An observing system simulation experiment to evaluate the scientific merit of wind and ozone measurements from the future SWIFT instrument

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 131, Issue 606, 2005, Pages 503-523

  Lahoz, W A ^a   Brugge, R ^a   Jackson, D R ^b   Migliorini, S ^a   Swinbank, R ^b   Lary, D ^c   Lee, A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Singapore University   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; OSSE; Remote sensing; Satellite

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE LAYER; REMOTE SENSING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; VECTORS; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GENERAL-CIRCULATION MODEL (GCM); OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT (OSSE); OZONE FLUXES; STRATOSPHERIC WIND; STRATOSPHERIC WIND INTERFEROMETER FOR TRANSPORT (SWIFT); TROPICAL STRATOSPHERE;

METEOROLOGY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INSTRUMENTATION; OZONE; REMOTE SENSING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 27744493641     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.03.109     Document Type: Article

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