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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3385-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-3385-2015
Research article
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21 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 21 Aug 2015

A modification to the standard ionospheric correction method used in GPS radio occultation

S. B. Healy and I. D. Culverwell

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This paper presents a new method for reducing the impact of residual ionospheric errors in geophysical climatologies derived from GPS radio occultation measurements.