The assimilation of SSMIS radiances in numerical weather prediction models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 884-900

  Bell, William ^b   English, Stephen J ^b   Candy, Brett ^b   Atkinson, Nigel ^b   Hilton, Fiona ^b   Baker, Nancy ^c   Swadley, Steven D ^a,d   Campbell, William F ^c   Bormann, Niels ^e   Kelly, Graeme ^e   Kazumori, Masahiro ^f  

^a IEEE

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d METOC Consulting   (United States)

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

^f CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration validation (Cal Val); Numerical weather prediction (NWP); Radiance assimilation; Special Sensor Microwave Imager Sounder (SSMIS)

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP); RADIANCE ASSIMILATION; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; THERMAL EMISSION;

IMAGE SENSORS;

EID: 41549109961     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917335     Document Type: Article

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