The variational assimilation method for the retrieval of humidity profiles with the wind-profiling radar

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1525-1545

  Furumoto, Jun Ichi ^a   Imura, Shingo ^a   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^a   Seko, Hiromu ^b   Tsuyuki, Tadashi ^c   Saito, Kazuo ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION METHOD; WIND-PROFILING RADAR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COST FUNCTIONS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADIOSONDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ECHO SOUNDING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMIDITY; MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE; PROBABILITY; RADAR; RADIOSONDE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34848835765     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH2074.1     Document Type: Article

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