Estimation of local-scale precipitable water vapor distribution around each GNSS station using slant path delay

Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-33

  Shoji, Yoshinori ^a   Yamauchi, Hiroshi ^a   Mashiko, Wataru ^a   Sato, Eiichi ^a  

^a METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

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EID: 84920663924     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13496476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/sola.2014-007     Document Type: Article

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