Introductory comment — Special issue on the impact of satellite products on numerical analysis and prediction

The impact of targeted satellite observa

The impact of targeted satellite observations on numerical weather prediction

✍ M. L. Dando; A. J. Thorpe; J. R. Eyre 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 640 KB

## Abstract In numerical weather prediction (NWP), large quantities of satellite data are discarded because of operational time constraints and the potential for high‐density observations to reduce the quality of the initial conditions (analysis). To retain the important observational data without