Analysis and validation of GPS/MET radio occultation data in the ionosphere

Radio Science

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 949-966

  Schreiner, William S ^a   Sokolovskiy, Sergey V ^a   Rocken, Christian ^a   Hunt, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARRIER CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICAL METHODS; ELECTRON DENSITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRONS; ERRORS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; RADIO; TRACKING (POSITION);

ABEL INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS; IONOSONDES; LOW EARTH ORBIT (LEO) SATELLITE; PARAMETERIZED REAL-TIME IONOSPHERIC SPECIATION MODEL (PRISM); RADIO OCCULTATION;

RADIO INTERFERENCE; ORBITS;

CONSTRAINED ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINED INVERSIONS; CRITICAL FREQUENCIES; LOW EARTH ORBIT SATELLITES; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; SPECIFICATION MODELING; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TOTAL ELECTRON CONTENT;

EID: 0032671560     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS900034     Document Type: Article

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