Preconditions to ground based GPS water vapour tomography

Annales Geophysicae

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1727-1734

  Bender, M ^a   Raabe, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; GPS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; METEOROLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 34548312469     PISSN: 09927689     EISSN: 14320576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/angeo-25-1727-2007     Document Type: Article

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