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This chapter describes the authors’ effort on ensemble data assimilation of satellite precipitation measurements. The Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter (LETKF) was implemented with the Nonhydrostatic Icosahedral Atmospheric Model (NICAM), and JAXA’s GSMaP (Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation) data were assimilated at 112-km resolution.
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Miyoshi, T. et al. (2020). Precipitation Ensemble Data Assimilation in NWP Models. In: Levizzani, V., Kidd, C., Kirschbaum, D., Kummerow, C., Nakamura, K., Turk, F. (eds) Satellite Precipitation Measurement. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 69. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35798-6_25
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