Preliminary results of 4-D water vapor tomography in the troposphere using GPS

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 551-560

  Bi, Yanmeng ^a   Mao, Jietai ^a   Li, Chengcai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

GPS; Slant path; Tomography; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746801071     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00376-006-0551-y     Document Type: Article

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