Precipitation detection by the TOPEX/Poseidon dual frequency radar altimeter, TOPEX microwave radiometer, special sensor microwave/imager and climatological shipboard reports

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 205-213

  Cailliau, Damien ^a  

^a CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; IMAGE SENSORS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; RAIN; SNOW;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER (SSM/I);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033882061     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823913     Document Type: Article

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