Advances and limitations of atmospheric boundary layer observations with GPS occultation over southeast Pacific Ocean

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 903-918

  Xie, F ^a,b   Wu, D L ^b,d   Ao, C O ^b   Mannucci, A J ^b   Kursinski, E R ^c,e  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e Broad Reach Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; GPS; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RADIOSONDE; STRATOCUMULUS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST);

EID: 84865512216     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-903-2012     Document Type: Article

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