Univariate and multivariate assimilation of AIRS humidity retrievals with the Local ensemble transform kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3918-3932

  Liu, Junjie ^a   Li, Hong ^b   Kalnay, Eugenia ^c   Kostelich, Eric J ^d   Szunyogh, Istvan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FORECAST TIME; HUMIDITY ANALYSIS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PROCESS YIELD; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; UNIVARIATE; WIND ANALYSIS; ZONAL WIND;

EXPERIMENTS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; MOISTURE; SOUNDING APPARATUS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; ZONAL WIND;

EID: 70350646336     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2791.1     Document Type: Article

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