Satellite All-sky Infrared Radiance Assimilation: Recent Progress and Future Perspectives

Jun Li, Alan J. Geer, Kozo Okamoto, Jason A. Otkin, Zhiquan Liu, Wei Han, Pei Wang

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Abstract

Satellite infrared (IR) sounder and imager measurements have become one of the main sources of data used by data assimilation systems to generate initial conditions for numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and atmospheric analysis/reanalysis. This paper reviews the development of satellite IR data assimilation in NWP in recent years, especially the assimilation of all-sky satellite IR observations. The major challenges and future directions are outlined and discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)9-21
Number of pages13
JournalAdvances in Atmospheric Sciences
Volume39
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2022

Keywords

  • all-sky radiances
  • satellite data assimilation
  • variational and ensemble data assimilation

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