Global 4dvar assimilation and forecast experiments using amsu observations over land. Part I: Impacts of various land surface emissivity parameterizations

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-19

  Karbou, Fatima ^a   Gérard, Elisabeth ^a   Rabier, Florence ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; LAND EMISSIVITY; LAND SURFACE; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; PARAMETERIZATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SNOW COVERED AREA; STANDARD DEVIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST FUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FORECASTING; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

EXPERIMENTS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; LAND SURFACE; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER;

EID: 77953549178     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009WAF2222243.1     Document Type: Article

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