GPS radio occultation with GRACE: Atmospheric profiling utilizing the zero difference technique

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Beyerle, G ^a   Schmidt, T ^a   Michalak, G ^a   Heise, S ^a   Wickert, J ^a   Reigber, C ^a  

^a GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO RECEIVERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING; METEOROLOGICAL ANALYSES; RADIO OCCULTATION EVENTS; SINGLE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

METEOROLOGY;

GPS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 24944553310     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023109     Document Type: Article

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