Experiments of GPS slant path data assimilation with an advanced MM5 4DVAR system

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-184

  Zus, Florian ^a   Wickert, Jens ^a   Bauer, Hans Stefan ^b   Schwitalla, Thomas ^b   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; GEOSCIENCES; GERMANY; GPS RECEIVERS; GROUND BASED; HELMHOLTZ; MESOSCALE MODEL; OBSERVATION SPACE; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; POTSDAM; PRECIPITATION FORECAST; RESEARCH CENTRES; SLANT PATH; VARIATIONAL ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EXPERIMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA PROCESSING; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; GPS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 80051689821     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2011/0232     Document Type: Article

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