Impact of singular-vector-based satellite data thinning on NWP

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 655, 2011, Pages 286-302

  Bauer, Peter ^a   Buizza, Roberto ^a   Cardinali, Carla ^a   Noël Thépaut, Jean ^a  

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

Author keywords

4D Var; Data assimilation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

4D-VAR; COLD SEASON; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DATA DENSITY; DENSITY DATA; ENSEMBLE PREDICTION SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICS; FORECAST ERRORS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; HIGH-DENSITY; METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALS; PREVIOUS YEAR; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TARGET REGIONS; WARM SEASONS;

EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA PROCESSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79952499062     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.733     Document Type: Article

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