Characterizing atmospheric turbulence with GPS

16th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 297-303

  Kleijer, Frank ^a   Elósegui, Pedro ^a,b   Davis, James L ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RANDOM PROCESSES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TURBULENCE VARIANCE SCALE FACTORS; VARIANCE COMPONENT ESTIMATION (VCE);

TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 23744433835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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