Assessing COSMIC GPS radio occultation derived atmospheric parameters using Australian radiosonde network data

Procedia Earth and Planetary Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1054-1059

  Fu, Er jiang ^a   Zhang, Ke fei ^a   Marion, Ka ye ^a   Xu, Xiao hua ^a,b   Marshall, John ^c   Rea, Anthony ^c   Weymouth, Gary ^c   Kuleshov, Yuriy ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

COSMIC; GPS; meteorology; radio occultation; spatial; validation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCTS; ATMOSPHERIC REMOTE SENSING; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; GPS METEOROLOGY; GROUND-BASED DATA; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; NETWORK DATA; POLAR AREAS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS; RESEARCH INITIATIVES; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL FINDING; WEATHER CHANGE; WEATHER STATIONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; COSMOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIO; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 71749119573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18785220     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeps.2009.09.162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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