Sea-air and boundary layer temperatures measured by a scanning 5-mm-wavelength radiometer: Recent results

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 291-302

  Westwater, Ed R ^a   Han, Yong ^a   Irisov, Vladimir G ^a   Leuskiy, Vladimir Y ^a   Trokhimovski, Yuri G ^b   Fairall, Christopher W ^b   Jessup, Andrew T ^c  

^a Environmental Technology Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOSONDES;

METEOROLOGICAL TOWERS; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SCANNING RADIOMETERS;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032027611     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS02747     Document Type: Article

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