Comparative studies for the assessment of the quality of near-real-time GPS-derived atmospheric parameters

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 701-714

  Pacione, Rosa ^a   Vespe, F ^b  

^a TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

^b ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH SCIENCES; ESTIMATION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PRESSURE; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS; VAPORS; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

(001) PARAMETER; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EUROPEAN; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SATELLITE (GPS) RECEIVERS; GROUND BASED NETWORKS; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPOR (IWV); METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; NEAR-REAL TIME (NRT); NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION (NWP) MODELS; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; STANDARD DEVIATION (STD); TEMPORAL SCALING; WEATHER FORECASTS; WIDE-RANGE; ZENITH TOTAL DELAY (ZTD);

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GPS; NUMERICAL METHOD; POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIOSONDE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 45849149695     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA935.1     Document Type: Article

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