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Diagnosis of Three-dimensional Water Vapor Using A GPS Network

Abstract

In recent years techniques have been developed to obtain integrated water vapor along slant paths between ground-based Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers and the GPS satellites. Results are presented of an observing system simulation (OSS) to determine whether three-dimensional water vapor fields could be recovered from a high-resolution network (e.g., with 40-km spacing) of GPS receivers, in combination with surface moisture observations and a limited number of moisture soundings. The paper describes a three-dimensional variational analysis (3DVAR) that recovers the moisture field from the slant integrated water vapor and other observations. Comparisons between ``nature'' moisture fields taken from mesoscale models and fields recovered using 3DVAR are presented. It is concluded that a high-resolution network of GPS receivers may allow diagnosis of three-dimensional water vapor, with applications for both positioning and mesoscale weather prediction.

Article / Publication Data
Active/Online
YES
ISSN
0027-0644
Volume
130
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Accepted On
January 05, 2001
Fiscal Year
Publication Name
Monthly Weather Review
Published On
January 05, 2001
Publisher Name
Amer Meteorological Soc
Print Volume
130
Print Number
2
Submitted On
June 26, 2000

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