A data assimilation experiment of temperature and humidity profiles from an international network of ground-based microwave radiometers

13th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MicroRad 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 81-84

  Cimini, Domenico ^a   Caumont, Olivier ^b   Lohnert, Ulrich ^c   Alados Arboledast, Lucas ^d   Huet, Thierry ^e   Ferrario, Massimo Enrico ^f   Madonna, Fabio ^a   Haefele, Alexander ^g   Nasir, Francesco ^h   Pace, Giandomenico ⁱ   Posada, Rafael ^j   Bleisch, Rene ^k  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^e ONERA   (France)

^f ARPA Veneto   (Italy)

^g FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^h INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

ⁱ ENEA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

data assimilation; ground based microwave radiometer; numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES; INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITIES; WEST MEDITERRANEANS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 84906751807     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MicroRad.2014.6878913     Document Type: Conference Paper

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