Assimilating GPS radio occultation measurements with two-dimensional bending angle observation operators

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue 626 A, 2007, Pages 1213-1227

  Healy, Sean B ^a   Eyre, J R ^b   Hamrud, M ^a   Thepaut J N ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

4D Var Satelite observations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RADIOSONDES; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

BENDING ANGLE; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; RADIO OCCULTATION; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION FORECAST;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; GEOPOTENTIAL; GPS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34548237773     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.63     Document Type: Article

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