Impact of GPS radio occultation data assimilation on regional weather predictions

GPS Solutions

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-49

  Huang, Ching Yuang ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^b,c   Chen, Shu Ya ^a   Terng, Chuen Tsyr ^d   Chien, Fang Ching ^e   Lin, Pay Liam ^a   Kueh, Mien Tze ^a   Chen, Shu Hua ^f   Yang, Ming Jen ^a   Wang, Chieh Ju ^a   Prasad Rao, Anisetty S K A V ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CENTRAL WEATHER BUREAU   (Taiwan)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

COSMIC; Data assimilation; FORMOSAT 3; GPS; Radio occultation; WRF

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HURRICANES; RADIO; RAIN; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REFRACTION; REGIONAL PLANNING; STORMS;

COSMIC; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORMOSAT-3; GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; LOCAL OBSERVATIONS; OBSERVATION OPERATOR; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REAL-TIME FORECASTS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SATELLITE DATA; TYPHOON; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 71349087313     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-009-0144-1     Document Type: Article

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