Deternation of Cloud Liquid Water Content Using the SSM/I

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 817-822

  Allshouse, John C ^a   Snider, Jack B ^b   Westwater, Ed R ^b   Swift, Calvin T ^c   Ruf, Christopher S ^c   Snyder, Sheila A ^d   Vongsathorn, Jennifer ^d,e  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d S M Systems and Research Corp ^*  (United States)

^e Vandair Corp ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; DATA PROCESSING; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS - REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLOUD LIQUID WATER CONTENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER (SSM/I); SSM/I BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0025491705     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.58968     Document Type: Article

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