Combined data assimilation of ozone tropospheric columns and stratospheric profiles in a high-resolution CTM

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 680, 2014, Pages 966-981

  Barre J ^a   Peuch, V H ^b   Lahoz, W A ^a,d   Attie J L ^a,c   Josse, B ^a   Piacentini, A ^c   Eremenko, M ^e   Dufour, G ^e   Nedelec, P ^c   von Clarmann, T ^f   El Amraoui, L ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

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

^c CNRS   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^f KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Combined data assimilation; Limb; Nadir; Ozone

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; OZONE; OZONE LAYER; TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC COLUMNS; DATA ASSIMILATION; LIMB; NADIR; OZONE DISTRIBUTION; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE PROFILES; TROPOSPHERIC COLUMNS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; NADIR; OZONE; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84899478296     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2176     Document Type: Article

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