Diagnostics for Evaluating the Impact of Satellite Observations

The adjoints of the numerical weather prediction (NWP) model and data assimilation system may be used together to objectively determine the observation impact – or whether a given observation platform or observing system improves or degrades the subsequent NWP forecast.

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