Atmosphere sounding by GPS radio occultation: First results from CHAMP

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2001, Pages 3263-3266

  Wickert, Jens ^a   Reigber, Christoph ^a   Beyerle, Georg ^a   König, Rolf ^a   Marquardt, Christian ^a   Schmidt, Torsten ^a   Grunwaldt, Ludwig ^a   Galas, Roman ^a   Meehan, Thomas K ^b   Melbourne, William G ^b   Hocke, Klemens ^c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

RADIO OCCULTATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

GPS; HUMIDITY; RADIO WAVE; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 17944368520     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013117     Document Type: Article

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