The impact of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) profiles on short-term weather forecasts

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6565, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zavodsky, Bradley T ^a   Chou, Shih Hung ^b   Jedlovec, Gary ^b   Lapenta, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAS; AIRS; Data assimilation; Forecast improvement; Numerical weather prediction; Quality control; Satellite retrieved profiles; SPoRT; WRF

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU); ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEM (ARPS); ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING SYSTEMS; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); QUALITY INDICATORS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING (WRF);

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH (PLANET); ESTIMATION; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 35948931069     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.718121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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