Impacts of GPS-derived water vapor and radial wind measured by Doppler radar on numerical prediction of precipitation

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 1 B, 2004, Pages 473-489

  Seko, Hiromu ^a   Kawabata, Takuya ^a   Tsuyuki, Tadashi ^a   Nakamura, Hajime ^b   Koizumi, Ko ^b   Iwabuchi, Tetsuya ^c  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; GPS; PRECIPITABLE WATER; PREDICTION; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND MEASUREMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 2942556662     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.473     Document Type: Article

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