Assimilation of cloud radar and lidar observations towards EarthCARE
Janisková, Marta ; Bauer, Peter
Année de publication
2014
Active satellite instruments provide a three-dimensional characterization of clouds and thus promise new information about the vertical structure of clouds for the benefit of numerical weather prediction (NWP). Observations from CloudSat and CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) are already available and new missions, such as EarthCARE (Earth Clouds, Aerosol and Radiation Explorer), will be launched in the near future (Box A). Whether information on clouds extracted from such data can be beneficial for NWP analyses and forecasts has been studied at ECMWF.
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