Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data
The main objective of the research under this award is to improve regional meteorological analysis and prediction for traditionally data limited regions, particularly over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, using the remote sensing observations from current and upcoming GPS radio occultation mission...
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ftnasantrs:oai:casi.ntrs.nasa.gov:20040085482 2023-05-15T13:30:43+02:00 Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data Kuo, Bill Zhao, Changyin Bromwich, David H. Shum, C. K. Rocken, Chris Unclassified, Unlimited, Publicly available [2004] application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20040085482 unknown Document ID: 20040085482 http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20040085482 No Copyright CASI Meteorology and Climatology UCAR-199-283 2004 ftnasantrs 2019-07-21T02:16:28Z The main objective of the research under this award is to improve regional meteorological analysis and prediction for traditionally data limited regions, particularly over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, using the remote sensing observations from current and upcoming GPS radio occultation missions and the EOS instrument suite. The major components of this project are: 1.Develop and improve the methods for retrieving temperature, moisture, and pressure profiles from GPS radio occultation data and EOS radiometer data. 2. Develop and improve a regional scale data assimilation system (MM5 4DVAR). 3. Perform case studies involving data analysis and numerical modeling to investigate the impact of different data for regional meteorological analysis and the importance of data assimilation for regional meteorological simulation over the Antarctic region. 4. Apply the findings and improvements from the above studies to weather forecasting experiments. 5. In the third year of the award we made significant progress toward the remaining goals of the project. The work included carefully evaluating the performance of an atmospheric mesoscale model, the Polar MM5 in Antarctic applications and improving the upper boundary condition. Other/Unknown Material Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Southern Ocean NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic |
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The main objective of the research under this award is to improve regional meteorological analysis and prediction for traditionally data limited regions, particularly over the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, using the remote sensing observations from current and upcoming GPS radio occultation missions and the EOS instrument suite. The major components of this project are: 1.Develop and improve the methods for retrieving temperature, moisture, and pressure profiles from GPS radio occultation data and EOS radiometer data. 2. Develop and improve a regional scale data assimilation system (MM5 4DVAR). 3. Perform case studies involving data analysis and numerical modeling to investigate the impact of different data for regional meteorological analysis and the importance of data assimilation for regional meteorological simulation over the Antarctic region. 4. Apply the findings and improvements from the above studies to weather forecasting experiments. 5. In the third year of the award we made significant progress toward the remaining goals of the project. The work included carefully evaluating the performance of an atmospheric mesoscale model, the Polar MM5 in Antarctic applications and improving the upper boundary condition. |
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Kuo, Bill Zhao, Changyin Bromwich, David H. Shum, C. K. Rocken, Chris |
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Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data |
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Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data |
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Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data |
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Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data |
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Regional Scale Meteorological Analysis and Prediction Using GPS Occultation and EOS Data |
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regional scale meteorological analysis and prediction using gps occultation and eos data |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Southern Ocean |
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