An approach for retrieving marine boundary layer refractivity from GPS occultation data in the presence of superrefraction

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1629-1644

  Xie, Feiqin ^a,b   Syndergaard, Stig ^c   Kursinski, E Robert ^a   Herman, Benjamin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE;

ABEL-RETRIEVED REFRACTIVITY; CONTINUUM OF SOLUTIONS; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; SUPERREFRACTION;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; BOUNDARY LAYERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REFRACTION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE;

BOUNDARY LAYER; GPS; INVERSE PROBLEM; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION;

EID: 33846397187     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1996.1     Document Type: Article

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