[time-nuts] GPS usable for weather forecasting?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <5155F30C.4080401 at earthlink.net>, Jim Lux writes:

>COSMIC and (coming soon) COSMIC-2 also do GPS occultation.

GPS occultation as meteologic model input was first tested and
validated on the Danish "Ørsted satellite":

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%98rsted_%28satellite%29

"gps occultation oersted" are good search-terms if you want to
read the fundamental scientific papers on the subject.


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