4D-Var assimilation of MERIS total column water-vapour retrievals over land

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 135, Issue 644, 2009, Pages 1852-1862

  Bauer, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Satellite

Indexed keywords

BIAS CORRECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA DENSITY; DATA IMPACT; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; ENVISAT; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FORECAST ACCURACY; FORECAST EVALUATION; MERIS OBSERVATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VALUE ENGINEERING; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; MERIS; QUALITY CONTROL; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70350675098     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.509     Document Type: Article

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