Global evaluation of radiosonde water vapor systematic biases using GPS radio occultation from COSMIC and ECMWF analysis

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1320-1330

  Ho, Shu peng ^a,b   Zhou, Xinjia ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a,b   Hunt, Douglas ^a   Wang, Jun hong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

COSMIC; ECMWF analysis; Global evaluation of radiosonde water vapor systematic biases; GPS radio occultation

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; COSMIC; ECMWF ANALYSIS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL EVALUATION OF RADIOSONDE WATER VAPOR SYSTEMATIC BIASES; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SYSTEMATIC BIAS;

IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGY; RADIO; RADIOSONDES; WATER VAPOR;

COSMOLOGY;

EID: 84860390330     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2051320     Document Type: Article

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