Processing and validation of refractivity from GRAS radio occultation data

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2065-2071

  Lauritsen, K B ^a   Syndergaard, S ^a   Gleisner, H ^a   Gorbunov, M E ^b   Rubek, F ^a   Sorensen M B ^a   Wilhelmsen, H ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b OBUKHOV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALTITUDE; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA INVERSION; DATA PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; REFRACTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84857773292     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-2065-2011     Document Type: Article

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