Retrieval of temperature and moisture profiles from AMSU-A and AMSU-B measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 2429-2435

  Rosenkranz, Philip W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; MOISTURE PROFILE RETRIEVAL; TEMPERATURE PROFILE RETRIEVAL;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0035510002     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.964979     Document Type: Article

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