Assimilation of GOES-13 imager clear-sky water vapor (6.5 μm) radiances into a warn-on-forecast system

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 1077-1107

  Jones, Thomas A ^a   Wang, Xuguang ^a   Skinner, Patrick ^a   Johnson, Aaron ^a   Wang, Yongming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensembles; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Short range prediction

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTION; WATER VAPOR;

COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; DATA ASSIMILATION TECHNIQUES; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; SHORT-RANGE PREDICTIONS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTIONS; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLEAR SKY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GOES; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL METHOD; PREDICTION; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85047093191     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-17-0280.1     Document Type: Article

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