A fast radiative-transfer model for the assimilation of MIPAS limb radiances: Accounting for horizontal gradients

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 620, 2006, Pages 2357-2376

  Bormann, N ^a   Healy, S B ^a  

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

Author keywords

Envisat; Ray tracing; Stratosphere; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAY TRACING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; INFRARED LIMB RADIANCE; RADIATIVE-TRANSFER MODEL; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MICROWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 33751527619     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.160     Document Type: Article

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