Time, Frequency and Space Geodesy: Impact on the Study of Climate and Global Change

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 79, Issue 7, 1991, Pages 1063-1069

  Macdoran, Peter F ^a   Born, George H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY STANDARDS; MASERS; METEOROLOGY--CLIMATOLOGY; RADAR, OPTICAL; TIME MEASUREMENT;

GLOBAL WARMING; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

SATELLITES;

EID: 0026191356     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.84983     Document Type: Article

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