4D GPS water vapor tomography: New parameterized approaches

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 539-550

  Perler, Donat ^a   Geiger, Alain ^a   Hurter, Fabian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

GPS; GPS meteorology; Tomography; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GPS; METEOROLOGY; TOMOGRAPHY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79960591168     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-011-0454-2     Document Type: Article

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