Using meteorological data assimilation models in computing tropospheric delays at micrwave frequencies

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-102

  MacMillan, D S ^a   Ma, C ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERIC DELAY;

EID: 0031868079     PISSN: 00791946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-1946(97)00249-8     Document Type: Article

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