A high-quality, homogenized, global, long-term (1993–2008) DORIS precipitable water data set for climate monitoring and model verification

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7209-7230

  Bock, Olivier ^a   Willis, Pascal ^b,c   Wang, Junhong ^d,e   Mears, Carl ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT GÉOGRAPHIQUE NATIONAL   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITES; STATISTICS; TROPOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE; CLIMATE MONITORING; DORIS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; MODEL VERIFICATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER; TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS; ZENITH TROPOSPHERIC DELAYS;

SATELLITE ANTENNAS;

EID: 84904765453     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021124     Document Type: Article

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