Impact of different ozone sounding networks on a 4D-Var stratospheric data assimilation system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 677, 2013, Pages 2055-2067

  Baier, F ^a   Erbertseder, T ^a   Elbern, H ^b   Schwinger, J ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ozonesondes; Polar stratospheric ozone; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; OZONESONDES; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE;

ATMOSPHERICS; ERROR STATISTICS; EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; SATELLITES;

DATA ACQUISITION;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; DATA ASSIMILATION; OZONE; OZONESONDE; POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUD; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 84890140808     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2086     Document Type: Article

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