Retrieval of moisture from simulated GPS slant-path water vapor observations using 3DVAR with anisotropic recursive filters

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1506-1521

  Liu, Haixia ^a   Xue, Ming ^a   Purser, R James ^b   Parrish, David F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ANISOTROPIC RECURSIVE FILTERS; ERROR COVARIANCE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION (3DVAR);

METEOROLOGY;

ANISOTROPIC MEDIUM; DATA ASSIMILATION; FILTER; GPS; INSTRUMENTATION; MOISTURE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PREDICTION; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34248344666     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3345.1     Document Type: Article

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