Global maps of microwave land surface emissivities: Potential for land surface characterization

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 745-751

  Prigent, Catherine ^a,d   Rossow, William B ^b   Matthews, Elaine ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^c NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies   (United States)

^d OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER SATELLITES; CLIMATOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

MICROWAVE LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITIES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; MICROWAVE SENSORS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONTRIBUTIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL PATTERNS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032072834     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS02460     Document Type: Article

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