The COSMIC/Formosat-3 mission: Early results

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-333

  Anthes, R A ^a   Bernhardt, P A ^b   Chen, Y ^a   Cucurull, L ^a,d   Dymond, K F ^b   Ector, D ^a   Healy, S B ^e   Ho, S P ^a,c   Hunt, D C ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a   Liu, H ^c   Manning, K ^c   McCormick, C ^f   Meehan, T K ^g   Randel, W J ^c   Rocken, C ^a   Schreiner, W S ^a   Sokolovskiy, S V ^a   Syndergaard, S ^a   Thompson, D C ^h   Trenberth, K E ^c   Wee, T K ^a   Yen, N L ⁱ   Zeng, Z ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^f Broad Reach Engineering   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL SPACE ORGANIZATION   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERE; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; TROPICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GLOBAL WEATHER FORECAST MODELS; RADIO OCCULTATION (RO); TROPICAL ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 42649144380     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-89-3-313     Document Type: Article

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