Exploring Earth's atmosphere with radio occultation: Contributions to weather, climate and space weather

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1077-1103

  Anthes, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAMP; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; COSMIC; GPS; IONOSPHERE; METOP-A; SATELLITE MISSION; STRATOSPHERE; TERRASAR-X; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84864510602     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-4-1077-2011     Document Type: Article

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