Effect of sporadic e clouds on GPS radio occultation signals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 18, 2010, Pages

  Zeng, Z ^a   Sokolovskiy, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; CLOUDS; E REGION; RADIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY; DEFOCUSING; IONOSPHERE AND CLIMATES; LOCAL TIME; PROPAGATION DIRECTION; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SPORADIC E; TANGENT POINT; TILT ANGLE;

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS;

AMPLITUDE; DATA SET; GPS; LATITUDE; RADIO WAVE; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 77957694477     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044561     Document Type: Article

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