A two-season impact study of the WindSat surface wind retrievals in the NCEP global data assimilation system

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 931-949

  Bi, Li ^a   Jung, James A ^a,b   Morgan, Michael C ^c   Le Marshall, John F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Quality assurance control; Satellite observations; Wind

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; CONTROL SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA TYPE; ERROR GROWTH; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; FORECAST MODEL; FORECAST SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; IMPACT STUDY; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; QUALITY ASSURANCE/CONTROL; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; WIND FIELD; WINDSAT;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; QUALITY CONTROL; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SATELLITES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WIND;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND FIELD;

EID: 77955581474     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010WAF2222377.1     Document Type: Article

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