GOES sounding improvement and applications to severe storm nowcasting

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Li, Zhenglong ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^a   Schmit, Timothy J ^b   Nelson III, James P ^a   Daniels, Jaime ^b   Ackerman, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER;

STORMS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; GOES; NOWCASTING; PRECIPITABLE WATER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORM;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 41849100729     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032797     Document Type: Article

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