Assimilation of precipitation-affected radiances in a cloud-resolving wrf ensemble data assimilation system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 754-772

  Zhang, Sara Q ^a   Zupanski, Milija ^b   Hou, Arthur Y ^a   Lin, Xin ^a   Cheung, Samson H ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SENSORS; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ERROR STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; LASERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

RAIN;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; STORM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84874958864     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-12-00055.1     Document Type: Article

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