Assimilation of Meteosat radiance data within the 4D-Var system at ECMWF: Data quality monitoring, bias correction and single-cycle experiments

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 130, Issue 601 PART B, 2004, Pages 2293-2313

  Munro, Rosemary ^a   Köpken, Christina ^a   Kelly, Graeme ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^a   Saunders, Roger ^a  

^a European Centre for Meadium Range Weather Forecasts   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geostationary satellites; Numerical weather prediction; Water vapour radiances

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA ACQUISITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOAKING PITS; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

SOLAR STRAY LIGHT; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; METEOSAT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 4844224846     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/qj.02.229     Document Type: Article

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