Impact of IASI assimilation at global and convective scales and challenges for the assimilation of cloudy scenes

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 1975-1987

  Guidard, V ^a   Fourrie N ^a   Brousseau, P ^a   Rabier, F ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

Cloudy radiances; Hyperspectral sounder; Mesoscale model

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FIELDS; CLOUD TOP PRESSURE; CLOUD WATER; CLOUDY RADIANCES; ECHELLE; EFFECTIVE CLOUD AMOUNTS; EQUIVALENT SINGLE LAYERS; GLOBAL MODELS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDER; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL APPLICATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SIMPLE APPROACH; SLICING METHODS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CARBON DIOXIDE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 83255185092     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.928     Document Type: Article

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