Articles | Volume 9, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-335-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-335-2016
Research article
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03 Feb 2016
Research article |  | 03 Feb 2016

Ionospheric correction of GPS radio occultation data in the troposphere

Z. Zeng, S. Sokolovskiy, W. Schreiner, D. Hunt, J. Lin, and Y.-H. Kuo

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