On some aspects of the impact of GPSRO observations in global numerical weather prediction

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 140, Issue 685, 2014, Pages 2546-2562

  Bonavita, Massimo ^a  

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

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Global NWP; GPSRO

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECAST VERIFICATIONS; GLOBAL NWP; GPSRO; HYPERSPECTRAL SATELLITE; INTEGRATED FORECASTING SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84922938357     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.2320     Document Type: Article

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