GPS radio occultation with CHAMP: Atmospheric profiling utilizing the space-based single difference technique

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Wickert, Jens ^a   Beyerle, Georg ^a   Hajj, George A ^b   Schwieger, Volker ^a   Reigber, Christoph ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DATA HANDLING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; STATISTICS; TRACKING (POSITION);

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING; CHALLENGING MINISATELLITE PAYLOADS; GPS (GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM); GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SATELLITE CLOCK ERRORS; SELECTIVE AVAILABILITIES;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 0037092272     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013982     Document Type: Article

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