Apparent precision of GPS radio occultation temperatures

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 2009, Pages

  Staten, Paul W ^a   Reichler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERIC DATA; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; DATA SETS; LONG-TERM FORECAST; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; ROBUST METHODS; SATELLITE NETWORK; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL;

COSMOLOGY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; PRECISION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 75649086921     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041046     Document Type: Article

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