The promise of GPS in atmospheric monitoring

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-18

  Businger, Steven ^a   Chiswell, Steven R ^a   Bevis, Michael ^a   Duan, Jingping ^a   Anthes, Richard A ^b   Rocken, Christian ^c   Ware, Randolph H ^c   Exner, Michael ^c   VanHove, T ^c   Solheim, Fredrick S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING; GPS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPOUR; MOISTURE FLUX CONVERGENCE; WATER VAPOUR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029768598     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0005:TPOGIA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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