Articles | Volume 12, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4829-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-12-4829-2019
Research article
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10 Sep 2019
Research article |  | 10 Sep 2019

Assimilation of GNSS tomography products into the Weather Research and Forecasting model using radio occultation data assimilation operator

Natalia Hanna, Estera Trzcina, Gregor Möller, Witold Rohm, and Robert Weber

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In the study, the potential of GNSS tomography as an important supplementary data source for numerical weather prediction models was examined. We used two GNSS tomography models (TUW, WUELS) in different configurations. The GNSS tomography outputs were assimilated into the WRF model using a radio occultation observations operator (non-standard approach). Promising results show improvement in the weather forecasting of relative humidity and temperature during heavy-precipitation events.