Impact of scatterometer surface wind data in the ECMWF coupled assimilation system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1203-1217

  Laloyaux, Patrick ^a   Thépaut, Jean Noël ^a   Dee, Dick ^a  

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

Author keywords

Atm Ocean Structure Phenomena; Coupled models; In situ oceanic observations; Mathematical and statistical techniques; Models and modeling; Observational techniques and algorithms; Satellite observations; Tropical cyclones; Variational analysis

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; HURRICANES; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

COUPLED MODELS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SITU OCEANIC OBSERVATIONS; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SCATTEROMETER; SURFACE WIND; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WAKE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 84961393673     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0084.1     Document Type: Article

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