Assimilation of thermodynamic information from advanced infrared sounders under partially cloudy skies for regional NWP

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5469-5484

  Wang, Pei ^a,b   Li, Jun ^a   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^c   Schmit, Timothy J ^d   Lim, Agnes H N ^a   Li, Zhenglong ^a   Han, Hyojin ^a   Li, Jinlong ^a   Ackerman, Steve A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRS; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR CORRECTION; HURRICANE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THERMODYNAMICS;

MADISON; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84933280390     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JD022976     Document Type: Article

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