Assimilating AIRS temperature and mixing ratio profiles using an ensemble kalman filter approach for convective-scale forecasts

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 541-564

  Jones, Thomas A ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; COMMUNITY IS; DEWPOINT; ENSEMBLE FORECASTS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; FILTER APPROACH; FORECAST MODEL; HIGH RESOLUTION; LEVEL 2; MIXING RATIOS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; SATELLITE DATA; SEVERE WEATHER EVENTS; WEATHER SURVEILLANCE RADAR-1988 DOPPLER;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; KALMAN FILTERS; MIXING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AIRS; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTER; MIXING RATIO; PROBABILITY; SATELLITE DATA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868312043     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: 15200434     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-11-00090.1     Document Type: Article

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