The radiometric sensitivity requirements for satellite microwave temperature sounding instruments for numerical weather prediction

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 443-456

  Bell, William ^a   Di Michele, Sabatino ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a   McNally, Tony ^a   English, Stephen J ^b   Atkinson, Nigel ^b   Hilton, Fiona ^b   Charlton, Janet ^c  

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

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c Sula Systems Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; FORECAST ACCURACY; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INFRARED SOUNDERS; MICROWAVE SOUNDER; MICROWAVE SOUNDING; MICROWAVE TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; RADIOMETRIC NOISE; RADIOMETRIC PERFORMANCE; RADIOMETRIC SENSITIVITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SYNTHETIC NOISE;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA REDUCTION;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL METHOD; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77952975045     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1293.1     Document Type: Article

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