Determination of cloud liquid water path over the oceans from special sensor microwave/imager (SSM/I) data using neural networks

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 832-844

  Jung, Thomas ^a   Ruprecht, Eberhard ^a   Wagner, Friedrich ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD LIQUID WATER PATH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER DATA; STANDARD REGRESSION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE SENSORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CLOUDS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLOUD WATER; SSM-I;

EID: 0032148120     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0832:DOCLWP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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