Inversion, error analysis, and validation of GPS/MET occultation data

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 122-138

  Steiner, A K ^a   Kirchengast, G ^a   Ladreiter, H P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b Österr Akad der Wiss ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Atmospheric composition and structure (pressure, density and temperature); Meteorology and atmospheric dynamics (instruments and techniques); Radio science (remote sensing)

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342295844     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00585-999-0122-5     Document Type: Article

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