Adaptive bias correction for satellite data in a numerical weather prediction system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 624 PART A, 2007, Pages 631-642

  Auligné, Thomas ^a   McNally, A P ^a   Dee, D P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bias estimation; Model bias; Observation bias; Radiance assimilation; Systematic error; Variational bias correction

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; RADIOSONDES; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SATELLITE RADIANCE; VARIATIONAL BIAS CORRECTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 34250026209     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.56     Document Type: Article

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