Effect of superrefraction on inversions of radio occultation signals in the lower troposphere

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Radio occultations; Radioholography; Superrefraction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

RADIO OCCULTATION; RADIOHOLOGRAPHY; SUPERREFRACTION;

RADIO ASTRONOMY;

EID: 0041382751     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002RS002728     Document Type: Article

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