Variability and climatology of PWV from global 13-year GPS observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1918-1924

  Jin, Shuanggen ^a,b   Luo, O F ^c  

^a Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI)   (South Korea)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Climatology; Global Positioning System (GPS); Variability; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH REANALYSIS; DIURNAL VARIATION; EQUATORIAL AREA; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING; GLOBAL SCALE; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; MIDLATITUDES; MULTISCALE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; SEASONAL CYCLE; SEMIANNUAL VARIATION; VARIABILITY; WEATHER DATA;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; WEATHER SATELLITES;

WATER VAPOR;

CLIMATOLOGY; GPS; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 67651174318     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010401     Document Type: Article

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