Comparison of independent integrated water vapour estimates from GPS and sun photometer measurements and a meteorological model

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 27, Issue 4-5, 2002, Pages 355-362

  Pugnaghi, S ^a   Boccolari, M ^a   Fazlagic S ^a   Pacione, R ^b   Santangelo, R ^a   Vedel, H ^c   Vespe, F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

^c DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d ASI   (Italy)

Author keywords

GPS; NWP model; Sun photometer; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; TROPOSPHERE; VAPORS; WATER;

WATER VAPOR DELAY ESTIMATION; WET DELAY;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CLIMATE MODELING; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PHOTOMETER; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

FRANCE; ITALY; SPAIN;

EID: 0036105658     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7065(02)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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