Estimates of spatial and interchannel observation-error characteristics for current sounder radiances for numerical weather prediction. I: Methods and application to ATOVS data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 649, 2010, Pages 1036-1050

  Bormann, Niels ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

AMSU A; Data assimilation; Error correlations; HIRS; MHS

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ADVANCED TIROS OPERATIONAL VERTICAL SOUNDER; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BACKGROUND ERRORS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; ERROR CORRELATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; INSTRUMENT NOISE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; SHORT SEPARATIONS; SHORTWAVE CHANNEL; SPATIAL OBSERVATION;

DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MOISTURE; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77954496089     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.616     Document Type: Article

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