Synergetic use of GPS water vapor and meteosat images for synoptic weather forecasting

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 514-518

  de Haan, Siebren ^a   Barlag, Sylvia ^a   Baltink, Henk Klein ^a   Debie, Frans ^a   van der Marel, Hans ^b  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED RADIATION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); THUNDERSTORMS; VAPORIZATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CUMULONIMBUS CLOUDS (CB); DRY INTRUSION; INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR (IWV);

METEOROLOGY;

GPS; METEOSAT; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1842635755     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2004)043<0514:SUOGWV>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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