Direct assimilation of Chinese FY-3C Microwave Temperature Sounder-2
radiances in the global GRAPES system

Li, Juan; Liu, Guiqing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3095-2016

Articles | Volume 9, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3095-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-3095-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 7

Research article

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19 Jul 2016

Research article |

| 19 Jul 2016

Direct assimilation of Chinese FY-3C Microwave Temperature Sounder-2 radiances in the global GRAPES system

Juan Li and Guiqing Liu

Data sets

NCEP global forecast field Authors unknown http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/data/gfs-avn-hi/

Short summary

FengYun-3C is an operational polar-orbiting satellite carrying the new-generation microwave sounding instruments in China. It can contribute to the Global Environmental Observing System of Systems. It is anticipated that the data can be useful for the weather forecast. After quality control, the data are put into the Chinese numerical weather prediction (NWP) system. It shows that the microwave temperature observations can have a neutral to positive impact on the NWP system.