Sensing of diurnal and semi-diurnal variability in the water vapour content in the tropics using GPS measurements

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 403-412

  Pramualsakdikul, Surat ^a   Haas, Rüdiger ^a   Elgered, Gunnar ^a   Scherneck, Hans Georg ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Diurnal; GPS; Semi diurnal; Tropical atmosphere; Water vapour

Indexed keywords

TROPICS; WATER VAPOR;

DIURNAL; HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOUR; SEMI-DIURNAL; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES; WATER VAPOUR;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ANNUAL VARIATION; GNSS; GPS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 38349107038     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.39     Document Type: Article

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