GPS sounding of the atmosphere from low earth orbit: Preliminary results

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 19-40

  Ware, R ^a   Exner, M ^b   Feng, D ^c   Gorbunov, M ^d   Hardy, K ^e   Herman, B ^c   Kuo, Y ^f   Meehan, T ^g   Melbourne, W ^g   Rocken, C ^a   Schreiner, W ^b   Sokolovskiy, S ^d   Solheim, F ^a   Zou, X ^f   Anthes, R ^b   Businger, S ^h   Trenberth, K ^f  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d Institute of Atmospheric Physics   (Russian Federation)

^e LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY PROFILE; GPS; RESEARCH SATELLITE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER VAPOUR DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029729277     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0019:GSOTAF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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