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Given the prospect of direct assimilation of satellite microwave radiances within numerical weather prediction (NWP) schemes, this study proposes to test a nonlinear inversion for retrieving geophysical parameters from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) measurements using NWP forecasts as a priori information. The inversion method relies upon an accurate analysis of the radiative transfer and simultaneously retrieves the surface wind speed, the integrated water vapor, and the cloud liquid water.
Prigent et al. (Thu,) studied this question.