Prospects of the EPS GRAS mission for operational atmospheric applications

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1863-1875

  Luntama, Juha Pekka ^a   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^b   Borsche, Michael ^b   Foelsche, Ulrich ^b   Steiner, Andrea ^b   Healy, Sean ^c   von Engeln, Axel ^d   O'Clerigh, Eoin ^d   Marquardt, Christian ^d  

^a FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIO NAVIGATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SPACE FLIGHT;

ATMOSPHERIC APPLICATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; DATA PRODUCTS; EUMETSAT POLAR SYSTEMS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCIES; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES; METEOROLOGY SATELLITES; MISSION LIFETIMES; NAVIGATION DATUM; NEAR-REAL-TIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; SPACE WEATHERS; UNIFIED METEOROLOGICAL ARCHIVE AND RETRIEVAL FACILITIES;

APPLICATIONS;

EID: 60849136334     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2399.1     Document Type: Article

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