On the quality of the era-interim ozone reanalyses: Comparisons with satellite data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 658, 2011, Pages 1312-1326

  Dragani, Rossana ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ozone; Reanalysis; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CO-LOCATED; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EXTRATROPICS; HIGH LATITUDES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; OZONE ANALYSIS; OZONE FIELDS; OZONE MIXING; OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS; OZONE PROFILES; OZONE RETRIEVAL; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TOTAL COLUMN OZONE; UPPER TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITES; TROPICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OZONE;

AIR QUALITY; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; MIXING RATIO; OZONE; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 79960738815     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.821     Document Type: Article

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