Thermospheric density and wind retrieval from Swarm observations

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1319-1331

  Visser, Pieter ^a   Doornbos, Eelco ^a   Van Den IJssel, Jose ^a   Da Encarnação, João Teixeira ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Precise orbit determination; Swarm; Thermospheric density; Thermospheric winds

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; GEOMAGNETIC FIELD; GRACE; ORBIT DETERMINATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; THERMOSPHERE;

EID: 84897583951     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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