Assimilation of GPS radio occultation data for numerical weather prediction

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 157-186

  Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Sokolovskiy, Sergey V ^b,c   Anthes, Richard A ^b   Vandenberghe, Francois ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

COSMIC; Data assimilation; GPS MET; Numerical weather prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034384185     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2000.11.1.157(COSMIC)     Document Type: Article

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