Variational assimilation of global microwave rainfall retrievals: Physical and dynamical impact on GEOS analyses

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2931-2957

  Lin, Xin ^a,b   Zhang, Sara Q ^a,c   Hou, Arthur Y ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; NASA; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RAIN; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GLOBAL MICROWAVE RAINFALL; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; RAINFALL; SSM-I;

EID: 34548276046     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3434.1     Document Type: Article

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