COSMIC GPS ionospheric sensing and space weather

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 235-272

  Hajj, George A ^b   Lee, Lou C ^a   Pi, Xiaoqing ^c   Romans, Larry J ^c   Schreiner, William S ^c   Straus, Paul R ^c   Wang, Chunming ^c  

^a NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

COSMIC mission; GPS occultations; Ionospheric data assimilation; Ionospheric profiling; Ionospheric sensing; Space weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034395379     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2000.11.1.235(COSMIC)     Document Type: Article

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