On the ionosphere calibration in GPS radio occultation measurements

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 865-883

  Syndergaard, Stig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

PATH CORRECTION METHOD; RADIO OCCULATATION MEASUREMENT;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 0034187671     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002199     Document Type: Article

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