Quality assessment of COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 GPS radio occultation data derived from single- and double-difference atmospheric excess phase processing

GPS Solutions

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-22

  Schreiner, William ^a   Rocken, Chris ^a   Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^a   Hunt, Doug ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS radio occultation; Phase; Single difference

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; COSMOLOGY; RADIO; REFRACTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; PHASE; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; PROCESSING STRATEGIES; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REFRACTIVITY PROFILES; SINGLE DIFFERENCES; STANDARD DEVIATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA MANAGEMENT; GPS; PHASE EQUILIBRIUM; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIO; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 71249111902     PISSN: 10805370     EISSN: 15211886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10291-009-0132-5     Document Type: Article

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