Detenination of Oceanic Tota Precipitable Water From the SSM/I

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 811-816

  Allshouse, John C ^a   Snyder, Sheila A ^b   Vongsathorn, Jennifer ^b   Ferraro, Ralph R ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b SM Systems and Research Corp ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; OCEANOGRAPHY - REMOTE SENSING; RADIOSONDES; RAIN AND RAINFALL;

GLOBAL NONLINEAR ALGORITHM; LINEAR ALGORITHM; OCEANIC TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER; SSM/I WATER VAPOR DATA;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0025493327     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.58967     Document Type: Article

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