GPS water vapor project associated to the ESCOMPTE programme: Description and first results of the field experiment

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 149-157

  Bock, O ^a   Doerflinger, E ^b   Masson, F ^b   Walpersdorf, A ^c   Van Baelen, J ^d   Tarniewicz, J ^e   Troller, M ^f   Somieski, A ^f   Geiger, A ^f   Burki B ^f  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^e INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^f ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GPS meteorology; Tomography; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; RADIOSONDES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; VAPORS;

RAMAN LIDAR; SOLAR SPECTROMETERS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GPS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 11144353542     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2004.01.014     Document Type: Article

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