Precipitation characteristics over land from the NOAA-15 AMSU Sensor

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2669-2672

  Ferraro, Ralph R ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^a   Grody, Norman C ^a   Zhao, Limin ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHMS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ICE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OPTICAL SENSORS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADVANCE MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; MICROWAVE SENSOR; SCATTERING SIGNAL; WINDOW CHANNEL MEASUREMENTS;

RAIN;

EID: 0034352604     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL011665     Document Type: Article

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