An innovative calibration method for the inversion of satellite observation

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2458-2473

  Aires, Filipe ^a,b,d   Bernardo, Frédéric ^a,d   Brogniez, Héléne ^c   Prigent, Catherine ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

^d SAS ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Error analysis; Model evaluation performance; Neural networks; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITES; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; HUMIDITY SOUNDER FOR BRAZILS; MODEL EVALUATION/PERFORMANCE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

CALIBRATION;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 78651078990     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2435.1     Document Type: Article

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