Signature of clouds over Antarctic Sea ice detected by the special sensor microwave/imager

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2000, Pages 2333-2344

  Miao, Jungang ^a   Johnsen, Klaus Peter ^a   Kern, Stefan ^a   Heygster, Georg ^a   Kunzi, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; POLARIZATION; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; SEA ICE;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; POLAR METEOROLOGY;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034270627     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868890     Document Type: Article

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