Observing the moist troposphere with radio occultation signals from COSMIC

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Sokolovskiy, Sergey V ^a   Rocken, C ^a   Lenschow, D H ^b   Kuo, Y H ^a,b   Anthes, R A ^a   Schreiner, W S ^a   Hunt, D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; HOLOGRAPHY; RADIO WAVES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; RADIO HOLOGRAPHIC METHOD; RADIO OCCULTATION SIGNAL;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; TOP OF ATMOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 36549006537     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030458     Document Type: Article

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