A methodology to compute GPS slant total delays in a numerical weather model

Radio Science

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Zus, Florian ^a   Bender, Michael ^a   Deng, Zhiguo ^a   Dick, Galina ^a   Heise, Stefan ^a   Shang Guan, Ming ^a   Wickert, Jens ^a  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN CENTER FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; FERMAT'S PRINCIPLE; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; GEOSCIENCES; GERMANY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM (GPS); GROUND BASED; MEAN DEVIATION; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL WEATHER MODEL; POTSDAM; RADIO SIGNALS; RESEARCH CENTRES; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS; TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM;

ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; NUMERICAL MODELS; REFRACTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 84860230281     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011RS004853     Document Type: Article

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