Estimating wet delays using numerical weather analyses and predictions

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 477-487

  Bevis, Michael ^a   Chiswell, Steven ^a   Businger, Steven ^a   Herring, Thomas A ^b   Bock, Yehuda ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERRORS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIO STATIONS; TEMPERATURE; WATER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION DELAYS; NESTED GRID MODEL; NUMERICAL WEATHER ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL WEATHER FORECASTS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; ZENITH WET DELAY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0030146321     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS00008     Document Type: Article

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