Data assimilation of cloud-affected radiances in a cloud-resolving model

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 755-773

  Polkinghorne, Rosanne ^a   Vukicevic, Tomislava ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud radiative effects; Cloud resolving models; Data assimilation; Satellite observations; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

CLOUD RESOLVING MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION; RADIATIVE EFFECTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; DATA ASSIMILATION; GOES; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79955045634     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3360.1     Document Type: Article

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