Performance measurement with advanced diagnostic tools of all-sky microwave imager radiances in 4D-Var

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 137, Issue 661, 2011, Pages 2038-2046

  Cardinali, Carla ^a   Prates, Fernando ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adjoint system; Diagnostic tools; Rain affected observations

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT SYSTEM; ADJOINTS; ADVANCED DIAGNOSTICS; ALL-SKY; ARABIAN SEA; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FORECAST ERRORS; FORECAST SYSTEMS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MONSOON SEASON; OPERATIONAL CHANGES; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RAIN-AFFECTED OBSERVATIONS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER;

DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADJOINT METHOD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MONSOON; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 83255194125     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.865     Document Type: Article

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