Impact of GPS radio occultation measurements in the ECMWF system using adjoint-based diagnostics

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 684, 2014, Pages 2315-2320

  Cardinali, Carla ^a   Healy, Sean ^a  

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

Author keywords

Diagnostic tools; Observation error variance; Observation impact; Radio occultation observations

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; ERRORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIO; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TOOLS; OBSERVATION ERRORS; OBSERVATION IMPACTS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SENSITIVITY COMPUTATION; SHORT RANGE FORECAST ERROR;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84922892152     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2300     Document Type: Article

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