Study of water vapor vertical variability and possible cloud formation with a small network of GPS stations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Van Baelen, Joël ^a   Penide, Guillaume ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; WATER CONTENT;

CLOUD FORMATIONS; MOUNTAIN RIDGES; SMALL NETWORKS; TRANSITION LAYERS; UPPER TROPOSPHERES; WATER VAPOR CONTENTS;

WATER VAPOR;

CLOUD; GPS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

AUVERGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PUY DE DOME [AUVERGNE]; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 62749182298     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036148     Document Type: Article

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