Global coverage of total precipitable water using a microwave variational algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3608-3621

  Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^a   Garrett, Kevin ^b   Chen, Wanchun ^c  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^c Perot Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); data assimilation; Microwave Humidity Sounder (MHS); microwave variational retrieval; radiosondes; SSMIS; total precipitable water (TPW)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; COASTAL AREA; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GENERIC DESIGN; GLOBAL COVERAGE; INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; METOP-A; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; REFERENCE DATA; SSMIS; STATE VECTOR; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER; VARIATIONAL ALGORITHMS; VARIATIONAL APPROACHES; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COASTAL ZONES; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; PIXELS; RADIOSONDES; SOUNDING APPARATUS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PIXEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOSONDE; SENSOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77956994446     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2048035     Document Type: Article

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