Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate
Contributors: Gottfried Kirchengast (Editor); Ulrich Foelsche (Editor); Andrea K. Steiner (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 15, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9783540223504
Subjects: Cosmology & the universe; Physics; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Science; Science/Mathematics; Weights & Measures; Geophysics; Science / Geophysics; Congresses; Occultations
First sentence: The structure of wave field measured in radio occultation experiments may be very complicated due to effects of diffraction and multipath propagation caused by strong lower-tropospheric gradients of atmospheric refractivity.