Analytic method for observation of the gravity waves using radio occultation data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Liou, Y A ^a   Pavelyev, A G ^a,b   Huang, C Y ^a   Igarashi, K ^c   Hocke, K ^c   Yan, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^c National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY WAVES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIOSONDES; WIND EFFECTS;

RADIO OCCULTATION (RO) SIGNALS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL METHOD; HORIZONTAL WINDS; PHASE SPEED; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; RADIOSONDE DATAS; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

GEOPHYSICS; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; GRAVITY WAVE; RADIO WAVE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1242300128     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017818     Document Type: Article

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