Monitoring twenty-first century climate using GPS radio occultation bending angles

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ringer, Mark A ^a   Healy, Sean B ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIO NAVIGATION; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE CHANGE SIGNAL; GLOBAL COUPLED CLIMATE MODEL; RADIO OCCULTATION BENDING ANGLE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GPS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MONITORING; SIMULATION; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 43449119039     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL032462     Document Type: Article

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