A two-season impact study of four satellite data types and Rawinsonde data in the NCEP global data assimilation system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-100

  Zapotocny, Tom H ^a,b   Jung, James A ^a,b,e   Le Marshall, John F ^a,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

CLIMATE CHANGE; HURRICANES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

ANOMALY CORRELATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; FORECAST IMPACTS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEM; SUMMER; WINTER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPOTENTIAL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; STORM TRACK; SUMMER; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 41949094998     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007WAF2007010.1     Document Type: Article

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