Microwave sounder cloud detection using a collocated high-resolution imager and its impact on radiance assimilation in tropical cyclone forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3937-3959

  Han, Hyojin ^a,b   Li, Jun ^a   Goldberg, Mitch ^c   Wang, Pei ^a   Li, Jinlong ^a   Li, Zhenglong ^a   Sohn, B J ^d   Li, Juan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^e NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Clouds; Data assimilation; Models and modeling; Observational techniques and algorithms; Physical meteorology and climatology; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; HURRICANES; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVES; ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; STORMS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-A; ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; VISIBLE-INFRARED IMAGER-RADIOMETER SUITES; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA ASSIMILATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; MODIS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL CYCLONE; VIIRS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84994165671     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-15-0300.1     Document Type: Article

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