Simulation of the performance of WALES based on an end-to-end model

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn 2, Issue 561, 2004, Pages 957-960

  Di Girolamo, Paolo ^a   Summa, Donato ^a   Bauer, Heinz ^b   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^b   Behrendt, Andreas ^b   Ehret, Gerhard ^c   Mayer, Bernhard ^c   Wirth, Martin ^c   Kiemle, Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; VAPORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPORS; LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP);

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 3142640877     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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