A two-season impact study of satellite and in situ data in the NCEP Global Data Assimilation System

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 887-909

  Zapotocny, Tom H ^a,b   Jung, James A ^a,b,e   Le Marshall, John F ^b,c   Treadon, Russ E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STORM TRACK; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 38849137156     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF1025.1     Document Type: Article

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