Improving forecast skill by assimilation of quality-controlled AIRS temperature retrievals under partially cloudy conditions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Reale, Oreste ^a,b   Susskind, J ^a   Rosenberg, R ^a,c   Brin, E ^a,c   Liu, E ^a,c   Riishojgaard, L P ^a,b,d   Terry, J ^a,c   Jusem, J C ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^d Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; FORECASTING; INFRARED DEVICES; NASA; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; REAL TIME CONTROL; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRS DATA; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); CLOUD COVERS; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; CONTAMINATED AREAS; FORECASTING SYSTEMS; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GLOBAL MODELING; HIGHER LATITUDES; HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION; MIDTROPOSPHERE; NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE (NH); POLAR VORTEX; SIBERIA; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; TEMPERATURE PROFILING; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS; WEATHER FORECASTS; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

CLEAR SKY; CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLAR VORTEX; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALASKA; EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIBERIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 48249119633     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL033002     Document Type: Article

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