First results from the GPS atmosphere sounding experiment TOR aboard the TerraSAR-X satellite

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 6687-6699

  Beyerle, G ^a   Grunwaldt, L ^a   Heise, S ^a   Kohler W ^a   Konig R ^a   Michalak, G ^a   Rothacher, M ^b   Schmidt, T ^a   Wickert, J ^a   Tapley, B D ^c   Giesinger, B ^d  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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

^d Broad Reach Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GPS; REFRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRATOSPHERE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79960342903     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-11-6687-2011     Document Type: Article

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