Assimilation of the GPS-derived integrated water vapour (IWV) in the MeteoSwiss numerical weather prediction model-a first experiment

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 177-186

  Guerova, G ^a   Bettems, J M ^b   Brockmann, E ^c   Matzler, Ch ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^c Federal Office of Topography swisstopo   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; GPS; Integrated water vapour; Mesoscale models; Numerical weather prediction; Observing system experiment

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; VAPORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVECTIVE WEATHER; ISOTROPIC INFLUENCE;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 1842784704     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2004.01.009     Document Type: Article

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