Effects of all-sky assimilation of GCOM-W/AMSR2 radiances in the ECMWF numerical weather prediction system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 142, Issue 695, 2016, Pages 721-737

  Kazumori, Masahiro ^a   Geer, Alan J ^b   English, Stephen J ^b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

AMSR2; Microwave imager; Numerical weather prediction; Radiance assimilation

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; MICROWAVES; TROPOSPHERE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AMSR2; CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIANCE ASSIMILATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AMSR-E; DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; RADIANCE; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84946606576     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2669     Document Type: Article

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