Assimilation of COST 716 Near-Real Time GPS data in the nonhydrostatic limited area model used at MeteoSwiss

Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 149-164

  Guerova, Guergana ^a,d   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 Swiss Federal Office of Topography   (Switzerland)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 31044440006     PISSN: 01777971     EISSN: 14365065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00703-005-0110-6     Document Type: Article

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