Integrated water vapor estimated by GPS compared to independent observations during MAP

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4539, Issue , 2002, Pages 289-298

  Bock, O ^a,b   Flamant, C ^b   Duquesnoy, T ^a  

^a INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Global Positioning System; Integrated water vapor

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; VAPORS;

INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS (IWV);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036396918     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.454446     Document Type: Article

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