Assimilation for skin SST in the NASA GEOS atmospheric data assimilation system

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 143, Issue 703, 2017, Pages 1032-1046

  Akella, Santha ^a,b   Todling, Ricardo ^a   Suarez, Max ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; coupled data sssimilation; diurnal warming; NWP; SST

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA ACQUISITION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; NASA; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; AVHRR; COUPLED DATA SSSIMILATION; DIURNAL WARMING; GODDARD EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; AVHRR; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; EOS; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WARMING; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85015323486     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2988     Document Type: Article

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