Assimilating all-sky Himawari-8 satellite infrared radiances: A case of Typhoon Soudelor (2015)

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 213-229

  Honda, Takumi ^a   Miyoshi, Takemasa ^a,b,c   Lien, Guo Yuan ^a   Nishizawa, Seiya ^a   Yoshida, Ryuji ^a   Adachi, Sachiho A ^a   Terasaki, Koji ^a   Okamoto, Kozo ^a,d   Tomita, Hirofumi ^a   Bessho, Kotaro ^d  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Satellite observations; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; FREQUENCY BANDS; HURRICANES; SATELLITES; STORMS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTATIONARY METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES; HIGH RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS; INTENSITY FORECASTS; REGIONAL NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; INFRARED RADIATION; SATELLITE DATA; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

JAPAN;

EID: 85040916613     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-16-0357.1     Document Type: Article

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