On the assimilation of satellite sounder data in cloudy skies in numerical weather prediction models

Journal of Meteorological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 169-182

  Jun, L I ^a   Pei, Wang ^a,b   Hyojin, Han ^a   Jinlong, L I ^a   Jing, Zheng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Cloudy region; Data assimilation; Satellite sounder

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; DETECTION METHOD; FIELD OF VIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85007163214     PISSN: 20956037     EISSN: 21980934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13351-016-5114-2     Document Type: Article

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