Impact of a satellite-derived leaf area index monthly climatology in a global numerical weather prediction model

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 34, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 3520-3542

  Boussetta, Souhail ^a   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^a   Beljaars, Anton ^a   Kral, Tomas ^a   Jarlan, Lionel ^b,c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^c National Meteorological Research Centre   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; ORBITS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TABLE LOOKUP; VEGETATION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEMS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEAR SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AVHRR; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION TYPE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84873690909     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.716543     Document Type: Article

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