Assimilation of GPS radio occultation refractivity data from CHAMP and SAC-C missions over high southern latitudes with MM5 4DVAR

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 136, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2923-2944

  Wee, Tae Kwon ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Bromwich, David H ^b   Monaghan, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORECASTING; REVERSE OSMOSIS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TURBULENT FLOW;

CHALLENGING MINI-SATELLITE PAYLOAD; CORRELATION CO-EFFICIENT; CYCLONIC ACTIVITIES; EARLY DETECTION; ERROR REDUCTION; FORECAST IMPROVEMENTS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHTS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; MESOSCALE MODEL; MODEL ATMOSPHERE; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; NON-LINEAR GROWTH; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; RADIO OCCULTATION; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE ERROR; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELDS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CYCLOGENESIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 53249144373     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007MWR1925.1     Document Type: Article

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