Evaluation of a strategy for the assimilation of satellite radiance observations with the local ensemble transform Kalman filter

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1932-1951

  Aravéquia, José A ^a   Szunyogh, Istvan ^b   Fertig, Elana J ^c   Kalnay, Eugenia ^d   Kuhl, David ^e   Kostelich, Eric J ^f  

^a Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos CTPEC   (Brazil)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Kalman filters; Radiation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AQUA SPACECRAFTS; BIAS CORRECTION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLES; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; GRID POINTS; MODEL COMPONENTS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WIND ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; METADATA; SATELLITES;

KALMAN FILTERS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL METHOD; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 79959620319     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3515.1     Document Type: Article

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