Refractivity and temperature climate records from multiple radio occultation satellites consistent within 0.05%

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2007-2018

  Foelsche, U ^a   Scherllin Pirscher, B ^a,b   Ladstadter F ^a   Steiner, A K ^a   Kirchengast, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; CHAMP; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATOLOGY; COSMIC; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORMOSAT-3; GRACE; IONOSPHERE; LATITUDE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RADIO; REFRACTION; SAMPLING; SATELLITE DATA; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84857767300     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-2007-2011     Document Type: Article

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