A comparison of the impact of QuikScat and winds at wind vector products on met office analyses and forecasts

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1632-1640

  Candy, Brett ^a   English, Stephen J ^a   Keogh, Simon J ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assimilation; QuikScat; Weather forecasting; WindSat

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECASTING SYSTEM; MET OFFICE ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; POLARIMETRIC RADIOMETER; QUIKSCAT; SCATTEROMETER; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SURFACE PRESSURE FIELD; TRACK ERRORS; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VECTORS; WINDSAT;

ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; STORMS; WIND EFFECTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYCLONE; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCATTEROMETER; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

EID: 67349212886     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2009993     Document Type: Conference Paper

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