Assimilation of MIPAS limb radiances in the ECMWF system. II: Experiments with a 2-dimensional observation operator and comparison to retrieval assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 623, 2007, Pages 329-346

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

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

Author keywords

Envisat; Horizontal gradients; Stratosphere; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; INFRARED LIMB RADIANCES; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER FOR PASSIVE ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING (MIPAS);

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVISAT-1; HOMOGENEITY; INFRARED RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34247205789     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.47     Document Type: Article

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