Improved quantitative precipitation forecasts by mhs radiance data assimilation with a newly added cloud detectionalgorithm

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3203-3221

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

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHMS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL RELATIONSHIP; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RAIN; SIGNAL DETECTION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GIS; GOES; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIANCE;

EID: 84883821258     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00009.1     Document Type: Article

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