Assessing the climate monitoring utility of radio occupation data: From CHAMP to FORMOSAT-3/COSMIC

Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 155-170

  Foelsche, Ulrich ^a   Pirscher, Barbara ^a   Borsche, Michael ^a   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^a   Wickert, Jens ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate monitoring; Lower stratosphere; Radio occultation; Upper troposphere

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 67649649464     PISSN: 10170839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2008.01.14.01(F3C)     Document Type: Article

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