Validation of the COSMIC radio occultation data over gadanki (13.48°N. 79.2°E): A tropical region

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-70

  Rao, D Narayana ^a   Ratnam, M Venkat ^b   Mehta, Sanjay ^b   Nath, Debashis ^b   Basha, S Ghouse ^b   Rao, V V M Jagannadha ^c   Murthy, B V Krishna ^d   Tsuda, T ^e   Nakamura, Kenji ^f  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^c SV Government Polytechnic Tirupathi   (India)

^d B1 Ceebros ^*  (India)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GPS RO; Temperature; Validation; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; GPS; IONOSPHERE; MODEL VALIDATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPICAL REGION; WATER VAPOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; GADANKI; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 67649641314     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.01.23.01(F3C)     Document Type: Article

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