Experimental assimilation of DIAL water vapour observations in the ECMWF global model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 659, 2011, Pages 1532-1546

  Harnisch, F ^a   Weissmann, M ^a,b   Cardinali, C ^c   Wirth, M ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Observing system experiments; T PARC

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; T-PARC; WATER VAPOUR;

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL RADAR; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WATER ABSORPTION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; LIDAR; MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FALCONIDAE;

EID: 80052516547     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.851     Document Type: Article

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