Mir measurements of atmospheric water vapor profiles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 212-223

  Wang, J R ^a,b   Racette, P ^a   Chang, L A ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Futuretech Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR PROFILES; DROPSONDES; MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER; RAMAN LIDAR;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0031094235     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.563259     Document Type: Article

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