Effect of different tropospheric mapping functions on the TRF, CRF and position time-series estimated from VLBI

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 81, Issue 6-8, 2007, Pages 409-421

  Tesmer, Volker ^a   Boehm, Johannes ^b   Heinkelmann, Robert ^b   Schuh, Harald ^b  

^a Deutsches Geod atisches Forschungsinstitut DGFI   (Germany)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Mapping function; Reference frame; Troposphere; VLBI

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; VERY LONG BASELINE INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 34249994841     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-006-0126-9     Document Type: Article

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