Assessment of assimilating ASCAT surface wind retrievals in the NCEP global data assimilation system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 139, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3405-3421

  Bi, Li ^a   Jung, James A ^b,c   Morgan, Michael C ^d   Le Marshall, John F ^e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Experimental design; Forecasting; Numerical weather prediction; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; CONTROL PROCEDURES; CONTROL SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA TYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; ERROR GROWTH; EXPERIMENTAL SIMULATIONS; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; FORECAST MODEL; FORECAST SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; GLOBAL DATA; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NETHERLANDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE WINDS; TEMPERATURE FORECASTS; WIND RETRIEVALS;

DATA PROCESSING; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION SERVICES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA QUALITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GEOPOTENTIAL; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84855818700     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011MWR3391.1     Document Type: Article

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