Research Article

Impact Evaluation of Assimilating Surface Sensitive Infrared Radiance Observations over Land and Sea Ice from Observing System Simulation Experiments

Figure 3

Profile of std. difference between CNTL and (a) EXP1 and (b) EXP2 temperature, computed against the Nature Run over the global domain, as a function of lead time into the forecast. Blue regions indicate deterioration while red regions are indicative of improvement with respect to the control.
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