COSMIC system description

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-52

  Rocken, Christian ^b   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^c   Schreiner, William S ^c   Hunt, Doug ^c   Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^c   McCormick, Chris ^a  

^a Broad Reach Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Atmospheric sounding systems; COSMIC Constellation Observing System for Meteorology; Global Positioning System (GPS); GPS Meteorology (GPS MET); Gravity; Ionosphere and Climate; Radio occultation; Remote sensing; Space Weather

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038831272     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.2000.11.1.21(cosmic)     Document Type: Article

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