The assimilation of horizontal line-of-sight wind information into the ECMWF data assimilation and forecasting system. Part I: The assessment of wind impact

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 141, Issue 689, 2015, Pages 1223-1232

  Horányi, András ^a   Cardinali, Carla ^a   Rennie, Michael ^a   Isaksen, Lars ^a  

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

Author keywords

Adjoint diagnostic tools; Aeolus wind observations; Line of sight wind; Observing system experiments

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; FORECASTING; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AEOLUS WIND OBSERVATIONS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; LINE OF SIGHT; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; STATISTICAL VERIFICATION;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER LIDAR; SATELLITE MISSION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZONAL WIND;

AEOLUS;

EID: 84932113923     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2430     Document Type: Article

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