Climatological characteristics of the tropopause parameters derived from GPS/CHAMP and GPS/SAC-C measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 111, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Kishore, P ^a   Namboothiri, S P ^a   Igarashi, K ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^b   Ao, Chi O ^b   Romans, Larry J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOSONDES; TROPICS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; GPS; POLAR REGION; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 33845643038     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JD006827     Document Type: Article

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