Atmospheric sounding with CHAMP: GPS ground station data for occultation processing

Physics and Chemistry of the Earth

Volumn 29, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 267-275

  Wickert, Jens ^a   Galas, Roman ^a   Schmidt, Torsten ^a   Beyerle, Georg ^a   Reigber, Christoph ^a   Förste, Christoph ^a   Ramatschi, Markus ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; JETS; SATELLITES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; SATELLITE CLOCK ERRORS;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; GPS;

EID: 1842633328     PISSN: 14747065     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pce.2004.01.015     Document Type: Article

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