A GPS/MET Sounding through an Intense Upper-Level Front

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 617-626

  Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Zou, X ^a   Chen, S J ^a   Huang, W ^a   Guo, Y R ^a   Anthes, R A ^b   Exner, M ^b   Hunt, D ^b   Rocken, C ^b   Sokolovskiy, S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; FRONT; GPS; IONOSPHERE; LIMB SOUNDING; METEOROLOGY; RADIO OCCULTATION;

EID: 0031670675     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(1998)079<0617:AGMSTA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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