Assimilation of oceansat-2-scatterometer-derived surface winds in the weather research and forecasting model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1015-1021

  Singh, Randhir ^a   Kumar, Prashant ^a   Pal, Pradip Kumar ^a  

^a Indian Space Research Organization Space Application Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Oceansat 2; scatterometer; surface winds; WRF

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION; OCEANSAT-2; SCATTEROMETERS; SURFACE WINDS; WRF;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WIND;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMSR-E; MOISTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84859764899     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2164410     Document Type: Article

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