The retrieval of atmospheric water vapor and cloud liquid water over the oceans from a simple radiative transfer model: application to SSM/I data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 328-332

  Cuissard, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Inverse problems; Microwave radiometry; Radiative transfer

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; HEAT RADIATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CLOUD LIQUID WATER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031672302     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.655346     Document Type: Article

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