Improvements in typhoon forecasts with assimilated GPS occultation refractivity

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 931-953

  Huang, Ching Yuang ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b   Chen, Shu Hua ^c   Vandenberghe, Francois ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL CONVECTION; RAIN; STORMS;

OCCULTATION REFRACTIVITY; RAINFALL DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; RAINFALL; STORM TRACK; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 32044454011     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/WAF874.1     Document Type: Article

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