Comparison of local and nonlocal observation operators for the assimilation of GPS RO data with the NCEP GSI system: An OSSE study

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 137, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3575-3587

  Ma, Zhaizhong ^a,b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b   Wang, Bin ^a   Wu, Wan Shu ^c   Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HURRICANE KATRINA; LOCAL OPERATORS; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL OPERATOR; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; WATER VAPOR MIXING RATIO;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFRACTION; SEA LEVEL; SIMULATORS; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EXPERIMENTS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GPS; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MIXING RATIO; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA LEVEL PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 70449123334     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2809.1     Document Type: Article

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