Quantification of structural uncertainty in climate data records from GPS radio occultation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1469-1484

  Steiner, A K ^a,b   Hunt, D ^c   Ho, S P ^c   Kirchengast, G ^a   Mannucci, A J ^d   Scherllin Pirscher, B ^a,c   Gleisner, H ^e   Von Engeln, A ^f   Schmidt, T ^g   Ao, C ^d   Leroy, S S ^h   Kursinski, E R ⁱ   Foelsche, U ^a   Gorbunov, M ^j   Heise, S ^g   Kuo, Y H ^c   Lauritsen, K B ^e   Marquardt, C ^f   Rocken, C ^c   Schreiner, W ^c   Sokolovskiy, S ^c   Syndergaard, S ^e   Wickert, J ^g   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^f EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^g GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^h HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GPS; REMOTE SENSING; STRATOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84873683945     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-1469-2013     Document Type: Article

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