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QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 661, Pages 1963-1974Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/qj.980
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cloud assimilation; SEVIRI
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Short-range forecasts of cloud cover are considered an important part of providing a public weather service in the UK. These require accurate initial conditions. Satellite imagery and surface cloud reports provide observations of cloud but using these to initialize forecast models is not easy. Cloud data are not well suited to variational analysis schemes. This paper describes how the Met Office variational analysis has been adapted to use such data. Results show that cloud observations can be usefully assimilated. Copyright (C) 2011 British Crown copyright, the Met Office. Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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