COSMIC radio occultation processing: Cross-center comparison and validation

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 737-751

  Gorbunov, Michael E ^a   Shmakov, A V ^a   Leroy, Stephen S ^b   Lauritsen, Kent B ^c  

^a OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Climate change; Data processing; Inversions; Numerical weather prediction forecasting; Occultation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY; DATA PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS; DATA PRODUCTS; FILTERING SCHEMES; FOURIER INTEGRAL OPERATORS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENTAL ERROR; INVERSIONS; IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION/FORECASTING; OCCULTATION; PROCESSING SYSTEMS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SATELLITE APPLICATION FACILITIES; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL UNCERTAINTY; WEATHER SERVICES;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; RADIO; REFRACTION; TROPICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA HANDLING;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; GNSS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATOSPHERE-TROPOSPHERE INTERACTION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 79959647305     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JTECHA1489.1     Document Type: Article

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