The Parallel Computing of GPS Ray-shooting Model

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1185-1191

  Li, Shuyong ^a   Wang, Bin ^a   Zhang, Xin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Efficiency; GPS ray shooting; Parallel computing; Scalability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142187565     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-001-0032-2     Document Type: Article

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