Generating climate benchmark atmospheric soundings using GPS occultation data

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6301, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Mannucci, Anthony J ^a   Ao, Chi O ^a   Yunck, Thomas P ^a   Young, Larry E ^a   Hajj, George A ^a   Iijima, Byron A ^a   Kuang, Da ^a   Meehan, Thomas K ^a   Leroy, Stephen S ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate benchmark; COSMIC; Global climate; GPS radio occultation; Remote sensing; SI traceability; Temperature sounding

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS; COSMIC; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL CLIMATE BENCHMARK; GPS RADIO OCCULTATION; TEMPERATURE SOUNDING;

BENCHMARKING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; SILICON;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

EID: 33750741084     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.683973     Document Type: Conference Paper

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