MiRS: An all-weather 1DVAR satellite data assimilation and retrieval system

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3249-3272

  Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^a   Garrett, Kevin ^b   Chen, Wanchun ^c   Iturbide Sanchez, Flavio ^b   Grassotti, Christopher ^b   Kongoli, Cezar ^d   Chen, Ruiyue ^b   Liu, Quanhua ^c   Yan, Banghua ^d   Weng, Fuzhong ^a   Ferraro, Ralph ^a   Kleespies, Thomas J ^a   Meng, Huan ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IM Systems Group Inc   (United States)

^c Dell Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric sounding; cloudy and rainy data assimilation; microwave retrieval; surface sensing

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DERIVED PRODUCTS; EMISSIVITY SPECTRA; ICE WATER PATHS; INTEGRATED CLOUD LIQUIDS; INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL; LIQUID CLOUD; METOP-A; MICROWAVE RETRIEVAL; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATIONS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; RAINFALL RATES; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; RETRIEVAL TOOL; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPACE-BORNE; STATE VECTOR; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE SENSING; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LIQUIDS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SEAWATER; SNOW; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

AIRBORNE SENSOR; CLOUD WATER; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA INVERSION; EMISSIVITY; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MOISTURE CONTENT; NOAA SATELLITE; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

EID: 80052338193     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2158438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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