Scaling of GNSS radio occultation impact with observation number using an ensemble of data assimilations

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 141, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4395-4413

  Harnisch, F ^a   Healy, S B ^a   Bauer, P ^a   English, S J ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE STATISTICS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ERROR STATISTICS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GNSS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84896920857     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: 15200493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-13-00098.1     Document Type: Article

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