TOPEX microwave radiometer performance evaluation, 1992-1998

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1379-1386

  Keihm, Stephen J ^a   Zlotnicki, Victor ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PERFORMANCE; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING;

METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MICROWAVE RADIO PROPAGATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; PATH DELAY;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 0033703177     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.843032     Document Type: Article

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