Direct assimilation of AMSR-E brightness temperatures for estimating sea ice concentration

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 997-1013

  Scott, K Andrea ^a   Buehner, Mark ^a   Caya, Alain ^a   Carrieres, Tom ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Microwave observations; Sea ice; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; EAST COAST; FORWARD MODELS; ICE CHARTS; ICE CONCENTRATION; ICE-OCEAN MODELS; INTEGRATED CLOUD LIQUIDS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; OBSERVATION SPACE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); STANDARD DEVIATION; STATE VECTOR; SURFACE WIND SPEED; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; FORECASTING; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEA ICE; VECTOR SPACES;

TEMPERATURE;

AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEA ICE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA;

EID: 84857957425     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-11-00014.1     Document Type: Article

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