Estimates of observation-error characteristics in clear and cloudy regions for microwave imager radiances from numerical weather prediction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2014-2023

  Bormann, Niels ^a   Geer, Alan J ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a  

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

Author keywords

AMSR E; Data assimilation; Error correlations; SSM I

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRELATION; ERROR CORRELATIONS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FIELDS OF VIEWS; FILTERING PROPERTIES; FORECAST MODEL; INSTRUMENT NOISE; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL ERRORS; SSM/I; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; INSTRUMENT ERRORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMSR-E; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 83255187357     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.833     Document Type: Article

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