Adaptive observation error inflation for assimilating all-Sky satellite radiance

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 1063-1081

  Minamide, Masashi ^a   Zhang, Fuqing ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUMINANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE;

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; BACKGROUND ERROR VARIANCES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL;

ERRORS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 85013962393     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0257.1     Document Type: Article

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