Development and optimization of the IPM MM5 GPS slant path 4DVAR system

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 867-885

  Zus, Florian ^a   Grzeschik, Matthias ^a   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Dick, Galina ^b   Bender, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJOINT MODELS; INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; MODEL PHYSICS; MODEL VALIDATION; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; NON-LINEAR; SLANT PATH; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

MESSAGE PASSING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; CUMULUS; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GPS; MODEL VALIDATION; MOUNTAIN REGION; OPTIMIZATION; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; TERRAIN;

EID: 63449106162     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0339     Document Type: Article

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