Exploiting existing ground-based remote sensing networks to improve high-resolution weather forecasts

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2107-2125

  Illingworth, A J ^a   Cimini, D ^b,c   Gaffard, C ^d   Haeffelin, M ^e   Lehmann, V ^f   Lohnert U ^g   O'Connor, E J ^a   Ruffieux, D ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^d MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^e ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^f DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^h FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

ⁱ FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WIND EFFECTS;

BACKSCATTERED SIGNAL; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; GROUND-BASED PROFILING INSTRUMENTS; GROUND-BASED REMOTE SENSING; HIGH-RESOLUTION WEATHER FORECASTS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SPECTRAL ESTIMATION METHODS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84955476717     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00283.1     Document Type: Article

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