Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Applications of Remote Sensing for Numerical Weather Prediction
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 269
Special Issue Editors
Interests: numerical weather prediction; wildland fires; atmospheric radiation; surface winds; climate; atmosphere; climatology; meteorology
Interests: remote sensing; weather and climate prediction and modeling; meteorology; climatology; ocean–atmosphere and air–sea interactions
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Remote sensing is a major component of numerical weather prediction (NWP). NWP predictions are routinely blended with satellite information in a process known as data assimilation in order to determine the atmospheric state to initialize the associated models. In addition, models rely on climatology or the characterization of surface properties (vegetation characterization, urban characterization, elevation, land use, etc.) to represent the relevant physical processes to determine the atmospheric evolution. Retrievals are also used routinely to evaluate the model’s performance, and in this way, they contribute to identifying aspects that require further attention in order to improve the accuracy of the predictions. In addition, there is an increasing variety of specialized NWP applications that make use of remote sensing information (e.g., wildland fire spread simulations, renewable energy applications, air quality, etc.).
This Special Issue is open to contributions that focus on recent developments, or reviews, of relevant aspects of remote sensing applications to improve or extend numerical weather predictions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Data assimilation;
- Characterization of surface properties;
- Air quality applications;
- Development of model climatology;
- Forecast verification;
- Specialized products for NWP applications.
Dr. Pedro A. Jimenez
Dr. Gad Levy
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- numerical weather prediction (NWP)
- data assimilation
- weather forecasting
- climatology
- surface characterization
- forecast verification
- NWP-driven applications
