Deriving dynamics from GPS radio occultation: Three-dimensional wind fields for monitoring the climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7367-7374

  Scherllin Pirscher, Barbara ^a   Steiner, Andrea Karin ^a   Kirchengast, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

climate change; climate variability; geostrophic wind; GPS radio occultation; gradient wind; troposphere and stratosphere

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIO; TROPOSPHERE; WIND;

ATMOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATOLOGICAL WINDS; GEO-POTENTIAL HEIGHTS; GEOSTROPHIC WINDS; GPS RADIO OCCULTATIONS; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; ISOBARIC SURFACES;

METEOROLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; STRATOSPHERE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TROPOSPHERE; WIND FIELD;

EID: 84911372746     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061524     Document Type: Article

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