Sub-Fresnel-scale vertical resolution in atmospheric profiles from radio occultation

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 411-423

  Karayel, E Tuna ^a   Hinson, David P ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; RADIO WAVES; REFRACTION; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ADVANCED RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM; RADIO OCCULTATION; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; SUB FRESNEL SCALE VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

RADIO COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

DIFFRACTION LIMITED; RADIO OCCULTATION MEASUREMENTS; REFRACTIVE INDEX PROFILES; REFRACTIVITY PROFILES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; SMALL-SCALE FEATURES; STANDARD ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0031095778     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS03212     Document Type: Article

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