Metamorphic signature of snow revealed in SSM/I measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 53-63

  Rosenfeld, Simon ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SENSORS; SNOW; WEATHER SATELLITES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; SNOW SIGNATURE; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033903604     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823901     Document Type: Article

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