Characterization of the impact of geostationary clear-sky radiances on wind analyses in a 4D-Var context

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1863-1876

  Peubey, C ^a   McNally, A P ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; DATA SETS; FORECAST MODEL; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; METEOSAT; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; WIND ANALYSIS; WIND FIELD;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE; VALUE ENGINEERING; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

WATER ANALYSIS;

CLEAR SKY; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; METEOSAT; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

EID: 70350626717     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.500     Document Type: Article

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