Validation of GPS slant delays using water vapour radiometers and weather models

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 807-812

  Bender, Michael ^a   Dick, Galina ^a   Wickert, Jens ^a   Schmidt, Torsten ^a   Song, Shuli ^b   Gendt, Gerd ^a   Ge, Maorong ^a   Rothacher, Markus ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION ANGLE; METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; MODEL COMPARISON; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; RADIOMETER DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER VAPOUR; WEATHER MODELS; ZENITH DELAY;

INSTRUMENT SCALES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; GPS; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOMETER; SAMPLING BIAS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 63449138991     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: 16101227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2008/0341     Document Type: Article

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