Impact of GPS Zenith Tropospheric Delay data on precipitation forecasts in Mediterranean France and Spain

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Vedel, H ^a   Huang, X Y ^a   Haase, J ^b   Ge, M ^c   Calais, E ^b  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING; FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODELS; RAIN;

MOISTURE FLUX; OROGRAPHIC LIFTING; PRECIPITATION FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING; MOISTURE ADVECTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; TORRENTIAL RAINFALLS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN; ZENITH TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS;

GEOPHYSICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

FORECASTING METHOD; GPS; HUMIDITY; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 18144453961     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017715     Document Type: Article

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