Citation
Abstract
Wet tropospheric path length fluctuation will, at some level of system sensitivity, begin to interfere with the search for gravitational waves using the spacecraft doppler method. This article investigates radiosonde data from Edwards Air Force Base and radio metric scintillation data collected over a long, nearly horizontal path in Hawaii, Utilizing a previous hypothesis that wet tropospheric path length fluctuation is proportional to total wet tropospheric signal delay, the two types of data are shown to be in reasonable agreement for averagings times (tau_a) of approximately 3000 seconds. The two-way modeled tropospheric fractional frequency fluctuation at tau_a = 1000 seconds is 1.6 X 10^-14.
Details
- Volume
- 42-55
- Published
- February 15, 1980
- Pages
- 79–85
- File Size
- 501.1 KB