Remote Sensing of Tropospheric Temperature and Water Vapor by Integrated Observing Systems

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1991-2006

  Westwater, Edgeworth R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RASS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOUR;

EID: 0031462960     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477-78.9.1991     Document Type: Article

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