Effects of the ionosphere and solar activity on radio occultation signals: Application to CHAllenging Minisatellite Payload satellite observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Pavelyev, A G ^a,f   Liou, Y A ^b,e   Wickert, J ^c   Schmidt, T ^c   Pavelyev, A A ^a,f   Liu, S F ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERING AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e CHING YUN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f INST OF RADIO ENG AND ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 34548307267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JA011625     Document Type: Article

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