Temperature profile retrieval from surface of mesopause by combining GNSS radio occultation and passive microwave limb sounder data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 775-778

  Von Engeln, Axel ^a,b   Bühler, Stefan ^a   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^b   Künzi, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; SENSORS; SPACE STATIONS; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS;

OPTIMAL ESTIMATION METHOD (OEM);

MICROWAVES;

ATMOSPHERE; GNSS; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035267604     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011718     Document Type: Article

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