Impact of GPS-Based Water Vapor Fields on Mesoscale Model Forecasts

(5th Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, Albuquerque, NM)

Jonathan L. Case and John Manobianco
NASA Kennedy Space Center/Applied Meteorology Unit/ENSCO, Inc.

Yuanfu Xie
NOAA/FSL

Randolph Ware
UCAR and RAdiometrics Corporation

Teresa Van Hove
UCAR

Presentation outline

• 3D water vapor analysis with GPS

  • GPS slant delays, simulated network

  • 3DVAR assumptions, results

  • Microwave profiler example

• Experiment design

  • Simulated slant GPS network

  • ARPS/ADAS assimilation

• Mesonet demonstration

• Summary

[See attached Power Point presentation for more.]