Assimilating GOES brightness temperatures. Part II: Assigning water vapor wind heights directly from weighting functions

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1200-1212

  Raymond, William H ^a   Wade, Gary S ^b   Zapotocny, Tom H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES (GOES); WATER VAPOR; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GOES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 4444343403     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<1200:AGBTPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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