Temperature and water vapor profiles derived from downward-looking GPS occultation data

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 82, Issue 1 B, 2004, Pages 433-440

  Aoyama, Yuichi ^b   Shoji, Yoshinori ^c   Mousa, Ashraf ^a,b   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^b   Nakamura, Hajime ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Egypt)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GPS; HUMIDITY; REFRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; CHUBU; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HONSHU; JAPAN; MOUNT FUJI;

EID: 2942554959     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.2004.433     Document Type: Article

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