An investigation of the relationship between emission and scattering signals in SSM/I data

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1628-1643

  Liu, Guosheng ^a   Curry, Judith A ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; EMISSION; MICROWAVE SENSING; PRECIPITATION; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; SCATTERING; SSM/I;

EID: 0031697784     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1998)055<1628:AIOTRB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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