Exploring the assimilation of IASI radiances in forecasting polar lows

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 660, 2011, Pages 1700-1715

  Randriamampianina, Roger ^a,c   Iversen, Trond ^a   Storto, Andrea ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b CENTRO EURO MEDITERRANEO SUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI   (Italy)

^c HUNGARIAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

3D Var; Data assimilation; Limited area model; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

3D-VAR; ACTIVE CHANNELS; ANALYSIS SYSTEM; ARCTIC REGIONS; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BEST FIT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DYNAMIC INSTABILITY; EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS; GEOPOTENTIALS; IN-SITU; LIMITED AREA MODELS; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MONITORING TECHNIQUES; MULTI-STEP; POLAR LOWS; REGIONAL MODEL; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; WEATHER SYSTEMS;

DATA PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TROPOSPHERE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; POLAR METEOROLOGY; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

NORWAY;

EID: 80055078210     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.838     Document Type: Article

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