Evaluation of a linear phase observation operator with CHAMP radio occultation data and high-resolution regional analysis

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3053-3059

  Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^a,b   Kou, Y H ^c   Wang, W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

LOW EARTH ORBITING SATELLITES; RADIO OCCULTATION; STANDARD DEVIATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 27744498900     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3006.1     Document Type: Article

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