Microwave transfer model differences in remote sensing of cloud liquid water at low temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1 II, 1999, Pages 620-623

  Lipton, Alan E ^a   Griffin, Michael K ^b   Ling, Alan G ^c  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Radex Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Clouds; Microwave propagation; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; PERMITTIVITY;

CLOUD LIQUID WATER PERMITTIVITY; MICROWAVE TRANSFER MODEL;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032712868     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.739129     Document Type: Article

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