Numerical sensitivity analysis of passive ehf and smmw channels to tropospheric water vapor, clouds, and precipitation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1992, Pages 859-870

  Gasiewski, A J ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

MILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETRY; MILLIMETER-WAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER (MIR); STRATOSPHERE; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE RADIOMETRY; WATER VAPOR;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0026912286     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.175320     Document Type: Article

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