Smoothing radio occultation bending angles above 40 km

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 459-468

  Healy, S B ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmosphere composition and structure (pressure, density and temperature); Radio science (remote sensing)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035611062     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-19-459-2001     Document Type: Article

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