Introductory comment — Special issue on the impact of satellite products on numerical analysis and prediction T. N. Krishnamurti EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1
On the use of radiosonde humidity observations in mid-latitude NWP A. C. LorencD. BarkerA. J. Maycock OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 17
On the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) J. SimpsonC. KummerowR. F. Adler OriginalPaper Pages: 19 - 36
Winds derived from geostationary satellite moisture channel observations: Applications and impact on numerical weather prediction C. S. Velden OriginalPaper Pages: 37 - 46
Physical initialization with the Arakawa-Schubert scheme in the Navy's operational global forecast model A. H. Van Tuyl OriginalPaper Pages: 47 - 55
Physical initialization in the NMC Global Data Assimilation System R. E. Treadon OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 86
Variational data assimilation in the tropics using precipitation data part I: Column model T. Tsuyuki OriginalPaper Pages: 87 - 104
Objective measures of the information density of satellite data H. -L. HuangR. J. Purser OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 117
Recovery of the one and two dimensional windfields from chemical constituent observations using the constituent transport equation and an extended Kalman filter R. Daley OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 136
Use of precipitation data for diabatic initialization to improve the tropical analysis of divergence and moisture A. KasaharaA. P. Mizzi OriginalPaper Pages: 143 - 156
The impact of spatial and temporal distribution of satellite observations on tropical cyclone data assimilation: Preliminary results J. F. Le MarshallL. M. LeslieC. Spinoso OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 163
Generalized inversion of a global numerical weather prediction model A. F. BennettB. S. ChuaL. M. Leslie OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 178
Contributions of various classes of convection to rainfall in the Atlantic Ocean R. E. ShemoJ. L. Evans OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 205
