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On the sensitivity of numerical weather prediction to remotely sensed marine surface wind data - A simulation studyThe reported investigation has the objective to assess the potential impact on numerical weather prediction (NWP) of remotely sensed surface wind data. Other investigations conducted with similar objectives have not been satisfactory in connection with a use of procedures providing an unrealistic distribution of initial errors. In the current study, care has been taken to duplicate the actual distribution of information in the conventional observing system, thus shifting the emphasis from accuracy of the data to the data coverage. It is pointed out that this is an important consideration in assessing satellite observing systems since experience with sounder data has shown that improvements in forecasts due to satellite-derived information is due less to a general error reduction than to the ability to fill data-sparse regions. The reported study concentrates on the evaluation of the observing system simulation experimental design and on the assessment of the potential of remotely sensed marine surface wind data.
Document ID
19810062619
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Cane, M. A.
(MIT Cambridge, MA, United States)
Cardone, V. J.
(Oceanweather, Inc. White Plains, NY, United States)
Halem, M.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences, Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Halberstam, I.
(California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 11, 2013
Publication Date
September 20, 1981
Publication Information
Publication: Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume: 86
Subject Category
Meteorology And Climatology
Accession Number
81A47023
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NGR-22-009-727
CONTRACT_GRANT: JPL-95441
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS5-24498
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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