Satellite cloud and precipitation assimilation at operational NWP centres

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 1934-1951

  Bauer, Peter ^a   Auligné, Thomas ^b   Bell, William ^a   Geer, Alan ^a   Guidard, Vincent ^c   Heilliette, Sylvain ^d   Kazumori, Masahiro ^e   Kim, Min Jeong ^f   Liu, Emily H C ^g,h   Mcnally, Anthony P ^a   Macpherson, Bruce ^h   Okamoto, Kozo ^e   Renshaw, Richard ⁱ   Riishøjgaard, Lars Peter ^j  

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

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^f Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Systems Research Group   (United States)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Data assimilation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CONTROL VARIABLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; INFRARED DATA; INFRARED RADIANCES; INITIAL CONDITIONS; LOW CLOUD COVER; LOW-LEVEL CLOUDS; MICROWAVE RADIANCES; MOIST PROCESS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; TEMPERATURE INCREMENT; TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; FORECASTING; SATELLITES;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

AIR TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLOUD; CLOUD COVER; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 83255176849     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.905     Document Type: Article

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