Potential of shipborne GPS atmospheric delay data for prediction of Mediterranean intense weather events

Atmospheric Science Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 250-256

  Boniface, K ^a,d   Champollion, C ^a   Chery, J ^a   Ducrocq, V ^b   Rocken, C ^c   Doerflinger, E ^a   Collard, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c GPS Solutions Inc   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

GPS; Mesoscale meteorology; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; GPS; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84867928452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1530261X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asl.391     Document Type: Article

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