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NWP Impact of Cloud Top and Boundary Layer Winds from a Satellite Borne Lidar: an Observing System Simulation Experiment
- Source :
- NASA. Langley Research Center, Sixteenth International Laser Radar Conference, Part 1.
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1992.
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Abstract
- Observing systems simulation experiments (OSSE's) provide a powerful tool to assess the impact of proposed satellite borne observing systems on meteorological applications models. We describe the results of an OSSE conducted to assess the impact of data from a low power lidar wind sensor on the forecast accuracy of a global spectral numerical weather prediction (NWP) model, the Air Force Geophysics Laboratory Global Data Assimilation System. The instrument would be operating at near-infrared wavelengths thereby increasing the backscatter signal relative to comparable infrared lidar.
- Subjects :
- Meteorology And Climatology
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- NASA. Langley Research Center, Sixteenth International Laser Radar Conference, Part 1
- Notes :
- F19628-89-C-0137
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.19920020085
- Document Type :
- Report