Monday, 10 February 2003
Multilevel cloud retrieval from the GOES platform
In an effort to fully utilize satellite observations on GOES
platform, NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory(FSL) has been
testing one dimensional variational analysis of cloud parameter
method by combining both sounder and imager radiances.
In order to minimize the differences between measured cloudy
and computed cloudy radiances we introduce fractional
clouds as control variables. Sensitivities to background
errors and measurement bias errors are investigated with emphasis
on moistures channel radiance data. Examples that use 20km
Rapid Update Cycle forecasts as background and GOES
sounder and imager data will be shown.
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