Evaluating added benefits of assimilating GOES imager radiance data in GSI for coastal QPFs

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-92

  Qin, Zhengkun ^a,b   Zou, Xiaolei ^b   Weng, Fuzhong ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PRECIPITATION; COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION;

INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA PROCESSING;

AMSU; DATA ASSIMILATION; GOES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874847722     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00079.1     Document Type: Article

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