Articles | Volume 6, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3169-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-6-3169-2013
Research article
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20 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 20 Nov 2013

On the determination of gravity wave momentum flux from GPS radio occultation data

A. Faber, P. Llamedo, T. Schmidt, A. de la Torre, and J. Wickert

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