Variational data assimilation for deriving global climate analyses from GNSS radio occultation data

GPS Solutions

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 227-235

  Loscher A ^a,c   Kirchengast, G ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c ESTEC   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

3D Var; Assimilation; Atmospheric studies; Champ; Climate change; Climate maps; Climate monitoring; Climate variability; Climatology; Data fusion; GNSS; GPS; Radio occultation; Recursive filters; Variational optimization

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; EARTH SCIENCES; FORECASTING; METEOROLOGY; RADIO NAVIGATION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SATELLITES; SYSTEM STABILITY; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

3D-VAR; ASSIMILATION; ATMOSPHERIC STUDIES; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CHALLENGING MINI-SATELLITE PAYLOAD; CHAMP; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MAPS; CLIMATE MONITORING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA FUSION; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CLIMATES; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEM; GNSS; GNSS SIGNALS; GPS; LONG-TERM STABILITY; MEAN FIELDS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIO OCCULTATION; RECURSIVE FILTERS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE PRESSURES; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; TEST BEDS; TIME WINDOWS; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL OPTIMIZATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GNSS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 49649104327     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-008-0087-y     Document Type: Article

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