Operational assimilation of ozone-sensitive infrared radiances at ECMWF

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 139, Issue 677, 2013, Pages 2068-2080

  Dragani, Rossana ^a   Mcnally, Antony P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Infrared data; NWP; Ozone

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED DATA; INFRARED RADIANCES; NWP; OPERATIONAL ASSIMILATION; OPERATIONAL SYSTEMS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

BLENDING; DATA PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

OZONE;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; OZONE; SENSOR; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84890210295     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2106     Document Type: Article

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