A principal component based version of the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 652, 2010, Pages 1823-1835

  Matricardi, Marco ^a  

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

Author keywords

Numerical weather prediction; Radiative transfer.; Satellite data assimilation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; ATMOSPHERIC SITUATIONS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; EIGENVECTORS; HIGHER-DEGREE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INPUT DATAS; INSTRUMENT NOISE; LINE SPECTRA; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; SIMULATED RADIANCES; SPECTRAL REGION; TRAINING SETS;

ATMOSPHERICS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EIGENVALUE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77958549262     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.680     Document Type: Article

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