Quality control, error analysis, and impact assessment of FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC in numerical weather prediction

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-113

  Poli, Paul ^a   Moll, Patrick ^a   Puech, Dominique ^a   Rabier, Florence ^a   Healy, Sean B ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; GPS radio occultation; Monitoring; Observation errors; Quality control; Refractivity lapse rate

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL METHOD; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67649637162     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.01.21.02(F3C)     Document Type: Article

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