COSMIC GPS radio occultation temperature profiles in clouds

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 138, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1104-1118

  Lin, L ^a   Zou, X ^a   Anthes, R ^b   Kuo, Y H ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Global positioning systems (GPS); Occultation; Profilers; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLEAR AIR; CLOUD BASE; EMPIRICAL VALUES; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; HIGH VERTICAL RESOLUTION; ICE WATER CONTENT; IN-CLOUD TEMPERATURES; LAPSE RATE; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LONG WAVES; NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCHES; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; OCCULTATION; PHASE CHANGE; PHYSICAL PROCESS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; REANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITIES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SHORT-WAVE RADIATION; SKY CONDITION; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL; THERMODYNAMIC STATE; WEIGHTED SUM;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; COSMOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; LINEAR REGRESSION; REFRACTION; STANDARDS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TRACKING (POSITION); WATER CONTENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77955538558     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009MWR2986.1     Document Type: Article

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