Monitoring the atmospheric boundary layer by GPS radio occultation signals recorded in the open-loop mode

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^a   Kuo, Y H ^a   Rocken, C ^a   Schreiner, W S ^a   Hunt, D ^a   Anthes, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE MONITORING; RADIO OCCULTATION (RO);

METEOROLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; GPS; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 33750606543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL025955     Document Type: Article

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