The influence of frequency shifts in microwave sounder channels on NWP analyses and forecasts

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 788-807

  Peubey, Carole ^a   Bell, William ^a  

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

Author keywords

Microwave observations; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Satellite observations; Sensitivity studies

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SENSITIVITY STUDIES;

FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; AMSU; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84898885851     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00016.1     Document Type: Article

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