Potential use of surface-sensitive microwave observations over land in numerical weather prediction

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1251-1262

  Gérard, Élisabeth ^a   Karbou, Fatima ^a   Rabier, Florence ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; humidity measurement; land surface; meteorology; microwave imaging; passive microwave remote sensing; Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM I)

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGING; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; HUMIDITY SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; EMISSIVITY; HUMIDITY; LAND SURFACE; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE; SSM-I; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79953185352     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2075936     Document Type: Article

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