Climate applications of a global, 2-hourly atmospheric precipitable water dataset derived from IGS tropospheric products

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 83, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 209-217

  Wang, Junhong ^a   Zhang, Liangying ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; GPS; IGS; Water vapor; Zenith troposphere delay

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; DIURNAL VARIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; RADIOSONDE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 61349096734     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-008-0238-5     Document Type: Article

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