Effect of aperture averaging upon tropospheric phase fluctuations seen with a radio antenna

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1353-1359

  Linfield, Roger P ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHASE MEASUREMENT; PHASE MODULATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY STANDARDS; RADIOMETERS; WIND;

ALLAN DEVIATION; APERTURE AVERAGING; TROPOSPHERIC PHASE FLUCTUATION;

ANTENNAS; TROPOSPHERE;

ALLAN DEVIATION; APERTURE AVERAGING; CROSSING TIME; PHASE FLUCTUATION; RADIO ANTENNA; TIME-SCALES; WATER VAPOR RADIOMETERS; WIND SPEED;

EID: 0032164253     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98RS02316     Document Type: Article

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