Continuous water vapor profiles from operational ground-based active and passive remote sensors

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1301-1317

  Turner, D D ^a   Feltz, W F ^b   Ferrare, R A ^c  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0000928617     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<1301:CWBPFO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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