Assessment of COSMIC radio occultation retrieval product using global radiosonde data

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1073-1083

  Wang, B R ^a,b   Liu, X Y ^a   Wang, J K ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Civil Aviation Administration of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COSMIC; ERROR ANALYSIS; FILTRATION; HUMIDITY; IONOSPHERE; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE DATA; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84882791697     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-6-1073-2013     Document Type: Article

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