A modified model for specular sea surface emissivity at microwave frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 2 I, 2000, Pages 858-869

  Cruz Pol, Sandra L ^a,b   Ruf, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Ocean emissivity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ERRORS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WIND EFFECTS;

MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; OCEAN EMISSIVITY; RADIOSONDE OBSERVATIONS; TOPEX MICROWAVE RADIOMETER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033902453     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.842014     Document Type: Article

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