A concept for the assimilation of satellite cloud information in an Ensemble Kalman Filter: Single-observation experiments

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 688, 2015, Pages 893-908

  Schomburg, A ^a   Schraff, C ^a   Potthast, R ^a  

^a DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud information; Convective scale; Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; LETKF; Satellite cloud product

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BANDPASS FILTERS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LOCATION; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD PRODUCTS; CONVECTIVE SCALE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; LETKF;

KALMAN FILTERS;

EID: 84928291939     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2407     Document Type: Article

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