Estimates of spatial and interchannel observation-error characteristics for current sounder radiances for numerical weather prediction. II: Application to AIRS and IASI data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 649, 2010, Pages 1051-1063

  Bormann, Niels ^a   Collard, Andrew ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

Calibration validation; Data assimilation; Error correlations

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; BACKGROUND ERRORS; BEAMSPLITTERS; CALIBRATION/VALIDATION; CORNER CUBES; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIRECTION OF THE MOVEMENT; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; ERROR CORRELATION; ERROR ESTIMATES; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INSTRUMENT NOISE; MICROVIBRATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; SHORT SEPARATIONS; SHORT WAVES; SPATIAL OBSERVATION; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; INSTRUMENTS; MOISTURE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ERROR STATISTICS;

CALIBRATION; CORRELATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77954501855     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.615     Document Type: Article

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