Assessments of cloud liquid water contributions to GPS radio occultation refractivity using measurements from COSMIC and CloudSat

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Yang, S ^a   Zou, X ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; COSMOLOGY; IONOSPHERE; LASERS; REFRACTION; VAPORS; WATER CONTENT; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTIVITY; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; CLOUD PROFILING RADARS; CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; CLOUD TYPES; CLOUD-BASE HEIGHT; CLOUDSAT; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; DATA SETS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FRACTIONAL-N; GLOBAL CLOUDS; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; NEGATIVE TEMPERATURES; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; RETRIEVAL UNCERTAINTY; SPACE AND TIME;

LIQUIDS;

CLEAR SKY; CLOUDSAT; COSMIC; DATA SET; GPS; IONOSPHERE; RADAR; REFRACTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84859454664     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016452     Document Type: Article

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