Comparison of simulated radiances, Jacobians and linear error analysis for the Microwave Humidity Sounder and the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit-B

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 132, Issue 621 C, 2006, Pages 3001-3010

  Kleespies, Thomas J ^a   Watts, Philip ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; JACOBIANS; NOISE CHARACTERISTICS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; SIMULATED RADIANCES; TWO CHANNELS;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846835008     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.05.03     Document Type: Article

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