Atmospheric gradients and the VLBI terrestrial and celestial reference frames

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 453-456

  MacMillan, D S ^a   Ma, C ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GRADIENT DELAY; CELESTIAL REFERENCE FRAMES; TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAMES; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY (VLBI); ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVE INDEX; CELESTIAL REFERENCE FRAME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; METEOROLOGICAL DATA; METEOROLOGICAL MODELING; TERRESTRIAL REFERENCE FRAME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

ESTIMATION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL CORRELATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; ERRORS; RADIO ASTRONOMY;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

EID: 0031070471     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL00143     Document Type: Article

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