A comparison of lower stratosphere temperature from microwave measurements with CHAMP GPS RO data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Ho, Shu P ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Zeng, Zhen ^a   Peterson, Thomas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REMOTE SENSING; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; RADIO OCCULTATION; SATELLITE OBSERVATION;

METEOROLOGY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; GPS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; STRATOSPHERE;

EID: 34948853286     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030202     Document Type: Article

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