The use of error estimates with AIRS profiles to improve short-term weather forecasts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6233 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jedlovec, Gary J ^a   Chou, Shih Hung ^a   Zavodsky, Bradley T ^b   Lapenta, William ^a  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAS; AIRS; Data assimilation; Forecast improvement; Numerical weather prediction; Quality control; Satellite retrieved profiles; SPoRT; WRF

Indexed keywords

ARPS DATA ANALYSIS SYSTEM (ADAS); DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST IMPROVEMENT; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SATELLITE RETRIEVED PROFILES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF);

ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INFRARED DEVICES; MOISTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EID: 33748651889     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.665724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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