A review of satellite meteorology and climatology at the start of the twenty-first century

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 474-489

  Kidd, Chris ^a   Levizzani, Vincenzo ^b   Bauer, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES AND CLIMATE   (Italy)

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

Author keywords

Aerosols; Data assimilation; Hydrometeorology; Land atmosphere interactions; Precipitation; Radiation; Soundings

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350450130     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133309346647     Document Type: Review

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