Skip to main content
Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Slant path radiative transfer for the assimilation of sounder radiances Cover

Slant path radiative transfer for the assimilation of sounder radiances

By:   
Open Access
|Jan 2017

References

  1. Andersson , E. , Pailleux , J. , Thépaut , J.-N. , Eyre , J. R. , McNally , A. P. et al. 1994 . Use of cloud-cleared radiances in three/four-dimensional variational assimilation . Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 120 , 627 653 . DOI: 10.1002/qj.49712051707 .
  2. Bauer , P. , Schanz , L. and Roberti , L. 1998 . Correction of three-dimensional effects for passive m icrowave remote sensing of convective clouds . J. Appl. Meteor. 37 , 1619 1632 . DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<;1619:COTDEF>2.0.CO;2 .
  3. Bormann , N. , Fouilloux , A. and Bell , W. 2013 . Evaluation and assimilation of ATMS data in the ECMWF system . J. Geophys. Res. 118 , 12,970 12,980 . DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020325 .
  4. Bormann , N. , Healy , S. B. and Hamrud , M. 2007 . Assimilation of MIPAS limb radiances in the ECMWF system. II: Experiments with a 2-dimensional observation operator and comparison to retrieval assimilation . Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 133 , 329 346 . DOI: 10.1002/(ISSN)1477-870X .
  5. Bormann , N. , Salmond , D. , Matricardi , M. , Geer , A. and Hamrud , M. , 2009 : The RTTOV-9 upgrade for clear-sky radiance assimilation in the IFS . Technical Memorandum 586 , ECMWF , Reading, UK , 26 pp. Online at www.ecmwf.int/publications/library/do/references/list/14
  6. Geer , A. , Baordo , F. , Bormann , N. and English , S. , 2014 : All-sky assimilation of microwave humidity sounders . ECMWF Technical Memorandum 741 , ECMWF , Reading, U.K. , 57 pp.
  7. Healy , S. , Eyre , J. , Hamrud , M. and Thépaut , J.-N. 2007 . Assimilating GPS radio occultation measurements with two-dimensional bending angle observation operators . Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 133 , 1213 1227 . DOI: 10.1002/(ISSN)1477-870X .
  8. Joiner , J. and Poli , P. 2005 . Note on the effect of horizontal gradients for nadir-viewing microwave and infrared sounders . Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 131 , 1783 1792 . DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.125 .
  9. Laroche , S. and Sarrazin , R. 2013 . Impact of radiosonde ballon drift on numerical weather prediction and verification . Weather and Forecasting . 28 , 772 782 . DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-12-00114.1 .
  10. Liu , Q. , Simmer , C. and Ruprecht , E. 1996 . Three-dimensional radiative transfer effects of clouds in the microwave spectral range . J. Geophys. Res. 101 ( D2 ), 4289 4298 . DOI: 10.1029/95JD03421 .
  11. Lu , Q. and Bell , W. 2014 . Characterizing channel center frequencies in AMSU-A and MSU microwave sounding instruments . J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol. 31 , 1713 1732 . DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00136.1 .
  12. Lupu , C. , Matricardi , M. and McNally , A. , 2015 : Monitoring infrared satellite radiance biases using the ecmwf model . In Poster presented at the 20th international TOVS study conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, US , CIMSS, University of Wisonsin , Madison, US , Online at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/itsc/itsc20/program/PDFs/28Oct/session2b/2p_09_lupu.pdf
  13. Matricardi , M. 2009 . Technical note: An assessment of the accuracy of the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model using IASI data . Atmos.Chem.Phys. 9 , 6899 6913 . DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-6899-2009 .
  14. Poli , P. , Joiner , J. and Lacroix , D. , 2005 : Application of radiative transfer to slanted line-of-sight geometry and evaluation with AIRS data . In Proceedings of the 14th International TOVS Study Conference, Beijing, China , 6.4 pp. Online at : cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/itsc/itsc14/proceedings/6_4_Poli.pdf
  15. Saunders , R. , Matricardi , M. and Brunel , P. 1999 . An improved fast radiative transfer model for assimilation of satellite radiance observations . Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc. 125 , 1407 1426 . DOI: 10.1002/qj.1999.49712555615 .
Language: English
Page range: 1272779 - 1272779
Submitted on: Sep 29, 2016
Accepted on: Dec 12, 2016
Published on: Jan 1, 2017
Published by: Stockholm University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2017 Niels Bormann, published by Stockholm University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.