The Impacts of AMMA radiosonde data on the French global assimilation and forecast system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1268-1286

  Faccani, C ^a   Rabier, F ^a   Fourrie N ^a   Agusti Panareda, A ^b   Karbou, F ^a   Moll, P ^a   Lafore, J P ^a   Nuret, M ^a   Hdidou, F ^c   Bock, O ^d  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

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

^c National Meteorological Research Centre   (Morocco)

^d INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN EASTERLY JET; BIAS CORRECTION; ECHELLE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HUMIDITY ANALYSIS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE DATAS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; SURFACE OBSERVATION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; RADIOSONDES;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EASTERLY WAVE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; EUROPE;

EID: 74549140854     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222237.1     Document Type: Article

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