Impact of GPS radio occultation refractivity soundings on a simulation of typhoon bilis (2006) upon landfall

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 115-131

  Kueh, Mien Tze ^a   Huang, Ching Yuang ^a   Chen, Shu Ya ^a   Chen, Shu Hua ^a,b   Wang, Chien Ju ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; FORMOSAT 3; GPS radio occultation refractivity

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAINFALL; TYPHOON; VORTEX; WIND VELOCITY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TAIWAN;

EID: 67649663746     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.01.21.03(F3C)     Document Type: Article

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