Preliminary impact studies using global positioning system radio occultation profiles at NCEP

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1865-1877

  Cucurull, Lidia ^a,b,e   Derber, J C ^c   Treadon, R ^c   Purser, R J ^d  

^a Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^d SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COSMOLOGY; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; EARTH SCIENCES; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; REFRACTION; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SATELLITES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC LEVELS; BENDING ANGLES; CHALLENGING MINI-SATELLITE PAYLOAD; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING CENTER; GLOBAL DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; IS PLANNING; NON-REAL TIME; POSITIONING SYSTEMS; RADIO OCCULTATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 49749144792     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR2260.1     Document Type: Article

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