Assessing the impact of simulated COSMIC GPS radio occultation data on weather analysis over the Antarctic: A case study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 134, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3283-3316

  Cucurull, L ^a,c   Kuo, Y H ^a   Barker, D ^b   Rizvi, S R H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; RADIO OCCULTATION (RO) SOUNDINGS; SIMULATED REFRACTIVITY OBSERVATIONS;

METEOROLOGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; HUMIDITY; PRESSURE FIELD; RADIO; REFRACTION; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER STATION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 33845402724     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3241.1     Document Type: Article

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