On combining instruments

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 220-226

  Fokianos, Konstantes ^a   Kedem, Benjamin ^a,d   Qin, Jing ^a   Haferman, Jeffrey L ^b   Short, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INSTRUMENT; RADAR; RADIOMETER;

EID: 0031835108     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0220:OCI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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