Four-dimensional variational data analysis of water vapor Raman lidar data and their impact on mesoscale forecasts

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1437-1453

  Grzeschik, Matthias ^a   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Engelbart, Dirk ^b   Wandinger, Ulla ^c   Mattis, Ina ^c   Althausen, Dietrich ^c   Engelmann, Ronny ^c   Tesche, Matthias ^c   Riede, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR TROPOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-H DATA; ABSOLUTE VALUES; DATA ANALYSIS; FORECAST TIME; HIGH RESOLUTION; LIDAR SYSTEMS; MEAN-WINDS; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE FORECASTS; MESOSCALE MODEL; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY; PROFILING SYSTEMS; RAMAN LIDAR; RAMAN LIDAR SYSTEM; TEST CASE; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES; WATER VAPOR FIELDS; WATER VAPOR PROFILE; ZENITH WET DELAYS;

BATHYMETRY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OPTICAL RADAR; WATER ANALYSIS;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GPS; LIDAR; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; WATER VAPOR; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 63449088392     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHA974.1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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