The beneficial impact of radio occultation observations on Australian Region forecasts

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 121-125

  Le Marshall, John ^a,b   Xiao, Yi ^a   Norman, Robert ^b   Zhang, Kefei ^b   Rea, Anthony ^c   Cucurull, Lidia ^d   Seecamp, Rolf ^c   Steinle, Peter ^a   Puri, K ^a   Le, Tan ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GRACE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REGIONAL CLIMATE; TROPOSPHERE; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79960544887     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6002.004     Document Type: Article

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