Precipitation: Measurement, remote sensing, climatology and modeling

S Michaelides, V Levizzani, E Anagnostou, P Bauer… - Atmospheric …, 2009 - Elsevier
This review paper deals with four aspects of precipitation: measurement, remote sensing,
climatology and modeling. The measurement of precipitation is summarized in terms of the …

A review of the use of geostationary satellite observations in regional-scale models for short-term cloud forecasting

F Kurzrock, S Cros, F Chane-Ming… - Meteorologische …, 2018 - univ-guyane.hal.science
Many research and societal applications such as surface solar irradiance assessment and
forecasting require accurate short-term cloudiness forecasts at kilometre and hourly scales …

[HTML][HTML] Issues regarding the assimilation of cloud and precipitation data

RM Errico, P Bauer, JF Mahfouf - Journal of the Atmospheric …, 2007 - journals.ametsoc.org
The assimilation of observations indicative of quantitative cloud and precipitation
characteristics is desirable for improving weather forecasts. For many fundamental reasons …

Multiple‐scattering microwave radiative transfer for data assimilation applications

P Bauer, E Moreau, F Chevallier… - Quarterly Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A multiple‐scattering radiative transfer model for microwave radiance data assimilation in
global numerical weather‐prediction models is presented. The model is part of the RTTOV …

Validation of the community radiative transfer model by using CloudSat data

Y Chen, F Weng, Y Han, Q Liu - Journal of Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
NOAA‐18 Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit‐A (AMSUA), Microwave Humidity Sounder
(MHS), and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer/3 (AVHRR/3), along with …

Validation of the community radiative transfer model

S Ding, P Yang, F Weng, Q Liu, Y Han… - Journal of Quantitative …, 2011 - Elsevier
To validate the Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) developed by the US Joint
Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), the discrete ordinate radiative transfer …

AMSR2 all-sky radiance assimilation and its impact on the analysis and forecast of Hurricane Sandy with a limited-area data assimilation system

C Yang, Z Liu, J Bresch, SRH Rizvi… - Tellus A: Dynamic …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
A method to assimilate all-sky radiances from the Advanced Microwave Scanning
Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) was developed within the Weather Research and Forecasting …

Satellite-observed cold-ring-shaped features atop deep convective clouds

M Setvák, DT Lindsey, P Novák, PK Wang… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on deep convective storms which exhibit a distinct long-lived cold ring at
their cloud top, as observed in enhanced infrared (IR) window satellite imagery. The feature …

Progress towards the assimilation of all‐sky infrared radiances: An evaluation of cloud effects

K Okamoto, AP McNally, W Bell - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
As a step toward the assimilation of cloud‐affected infrared radiances in multi‐layer cloud
conditions, this study evaluates cloud effects on model first‐guess simulations (background) …

Cloud motion estimation for short term solar irradiation prediction

H Huang, J Xu, Z Peng, S Yoo, D Yu… - … on Smart Grid …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variability of solar energy is the most significant issue for integrating solar energy into the
power Grid. There are pressing demands to develop methods to accurately estimate cloud …