A history of GPS sounding

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-20

  Yunck, Thomas P ^a   Liu, Chao Han ^b   Ware, Randolph ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric occultation; CHAMP; COSMIC; GGI; Global Positioning System; GPS sounding atmospheric limb sounding; GPS MET; GRACE; JPL; Oersted; Radio occultation; SAC C; Stanford; Sunsat; UCAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040362707     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/tao.2000.11.1.1(cosmic)     Document Type: Review

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