The assimilation of infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer radiances at ECMWF

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 641, 2009, Pages 1044-1058

  Collard, A D ^a   McNally, A P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; IASI; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH QUALITY; IASI; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; RADIANCE ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; DATA PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETER; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70149083900     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.410     Document Type: Article

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