Estimates of the precision of GPS radio occultations from the COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 mission

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Schreiner, W ^a   Rocken, C ^a   Sokolovskiy, S ^a   Syndergaard, S ^a   Hunt, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

COLLOCATED OCCULTATIONS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATE (COSMIC); RADIO OCCULTATION;

CLIMATOLOGY;

ELECTRON DENSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GPS; IONOSPHERE; PRECISION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE MISSION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 34547963760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027557     Document Type: Article

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