Radiosonde humidity bias correction over the West African region for the special AMMA reanalysis at ECMWF

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 640, 2009, Pages 595-617

  Agustí Panareda, Anna ^a   Vasiljevic, Drasko ^a   Beljaars, Anton ^a   Bock, Olivier ^b   Guichard, Françoise ^c   Nuret, Mathieu ^c   Mendez, Antonio Garcia ^a   Andersson, Erik ^a   Bechtold, Peter ^a   Fink, Andreas ^d   Hersbach, Hans ^a   Lafore, Jean Philippe ^a   Ngamini, Jean Blaise ^e   Parker, Douglas J ^f   Redelsperger, Jean Luc ^c   Tompkins, Adrian M ^g  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e ASECNA   (Senegal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^g ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

AMMA; Data assimilation; Humidity observations; Radiosonde bias; Reanalysis

Indexed keywords

AMMA; BIAS CORRECTION; CORRECTION METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY OBSERVATIONS; LARGE PARTS; MONSOON SEASON; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NWP MODEL; RADIOSONDE DATAS; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; WATER BUDGET; WATER CYCLE; WATER VAPOUR; WEST AFRICA;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; RADIOSONDES; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; HUMIDITY; MONSOON; RADIOSONDE; TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

EID: 69549090540     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.396     Document Type: Article

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