Atmospheric Moisture Measurements: A Microwave Radiometer - Radiosonde Comparison

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 389-398

  England, Martin N ^a   Schmidlin, F J ^a   Johansson, Jan M ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; VAISALA RADIOSONDE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

EID: 0027556267     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.214915     Document Type: Letter

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