The direct assimilation of principal components of IASI spectra in the ECMWF 4D-Var

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 679, 2014, Pages 573-582

  Matricardi, M ^a   Mcnally, A P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; IASI; Principal component analysis; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; VALUE ENGINEERING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

4D-VAR DATA ASSIMILATION; COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; IASI; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; SATELLITE DATA;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; IASI; METEOROLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84896051932     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2156     Document Type: Article

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