Passive microwave retrievals of precipitation over the Southern Ocean

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1725-1742

  Lachlan Cope, T A ^a   Turner, J ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ITERATIVE METHODS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ANTARCTIC CLOUDS; CLOUD LIQUID WATER; POLARIZATION CORRECTED TEMPERATURES (PCT);

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; POLARIZATION; PRECIPITATION; RETRIEVAL METHOD;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0031148506     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697218070     Document Type: Article

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