Observation errors in all-sky data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2024-2037

  Geer, Alan J ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cloud and rain; Microwave imagers; Non Gaussian behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALL-SKY; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; BIAS CORRECTION; BOUNDEDNESS; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD AMOUNT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; ERROR MODEL; FORECAST MODEL; GAUSSIANITY; GAUSSIANS; HETEROSCEDASTICITY; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MODEL ERRORS; NON-GAUSSIAN; OBSERVATION ERRORS; SAMPLING PROBLEMS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); STATISTICS;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 83255185715     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.830     Document Type: Article

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