Current problems in scattering radiative transfer modelling for data assimilation

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 1952-1962

  Bennartz, Ralf ^a   Greenwald, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BAND PASS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR BUDGETS; MODEL ERRORS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING;

RANDOM ERRORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCATTERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 83255187148     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.953     Document Type: Article

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