The impact of GPS radio occultation assimilation at the Met Office

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 646, 2010, Pages 116-131

  Rennie, M P ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Numerical weather prediction; Satellite data

Indexed keywords

BENDING ANGLE; EXTRATROPICS; FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC; GEOPOTENTIAL HEIGHT; IMPACT EXPERIMENT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; PROCESSING METHOD; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERICS; COSMOLOGY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IN SITU PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MONITORING; RADIOSONDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

REFRACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; EXTRATROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; GPS; GRACE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MONITORING SYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIOSONDE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 77249153665     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.521     Document Type: Article

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