Assimilation of TRMM multisatellite precipitation analysis with a low-resolution NCEP global forecast system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 643-661

  Lien, Guo Yuan ^a,b   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a   Kalnay, Eugenia ^a,b,c  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FORECASTING; METADATA; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; GAUSSIAN TRANSFORMATION; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PRECIPITATION DATA; STATISTICAL STUDY;

QUALITY CONTROL;

DATA ASSIMILATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRMM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84959257960     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0149.1     Document Type: Article

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