Use of TOPEX altimeter for the study of diurnal and spatial distribution of southwest monsoon rainfall over the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 112-121

  Varma, A K ^a   Gairola, R M ^a   Pandey, P C ^b   Singh, K P ^c  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR ANTARCTIC AND OCEAN RESEARCH   (India)

^c BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Microwave radiometer; Radar backscatter coefficient; Southwest monsoon; TOPEX Poseidon altimeter

Indexed keywords

RADIO ALTIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SEAWATER;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

RAIN;

DIURNAL VARIATION; MONSOON; RAINFALL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TOPEX-POSEIDON;

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0034919705     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00200-0     Document Type: Article

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