The impact of GPS precipitable water assimilation on mesoscale model retrievals of orographic rainfall during SALPEX'96

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 130, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2874-2888

  Falvey, Mark ^a   Beavan, John ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; RAIN; WATER; WIND EFFECTS;

ADVANCED REGIONAL PREDICTION SYSTEM (ARPS);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC EFFECT; PRECIPITABLE WATER;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 0036968195     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2002)130<2874:TIOGPW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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