The impact of targeted satellite observations on numerical weather prediction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 629 B, 2007, Pages 1945-1957

  Dando, Marie L ^a,b   Thorpe, A J ^a   Eyre, J R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive observations; ATOVS

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGY; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

ADAPTIVE OBSERVATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOVS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 38849150334     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.176     Document Type: Article

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