Atmospheric Water-Vapor Profiling by Ground-Based Radiometry at 22 and 183 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-21, Issue 3, 1983, Pages 320-323

  Askne, Jan I H ^a   Skoog, B GÖran ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY - MEASUREMENTS; REMOTE SENSING;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0020150453     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1983.350560     Document Type: Article

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