Toward a new cloud analysis and prediction system

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-210

  Auligne T ^a   Lorenc, A ^b   Michel, Y ^a   Montmerle, T ^c   Jones, A ^d   Hu, M ^e   Dudhia, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ERRORS; CLOUD ANALYSIS; CLOUD MODELING; CLOUD RETRIEVAL; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DIRECT USE; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTY; NON-DIFFERENTIABLE; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; OPERATIONAL USE; PREDICTION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL REGRESSION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 79953230859     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2978.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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