Improvement of daytime land surface skin temperature over arid regions in the NCEP GFS model and its impact on satellite data assimilation

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Zheng, Weizhong ^a,b   Wei, Helin ^a,b   Wang, Zhuo ^c   Zeng, Xubin ^c   Meng, Jesse ^a,b   Ek, Michael ^a   Mitchell, Ken ^a   Derber, John ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IMSG   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA PROCESSING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; IN-SITU DATA; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE LAND EMISSIVITY; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; ROUGHNESS LENGTH; SATELLITE CHANNEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS LENGTH; WARM SEASONS;

SATELLITES;

ARID REGION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; SENSOR; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859476839     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD015901     Document Type: Article

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