A simulation study combining radio occultation data and IR/MW radiances to derive temperature and moisture profiles

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4483, Issue , 2002, Pages 329-336

  Borbás, Éva ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^a   Li, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

GPS occultation; Infrared microwave remote sensing; Simulation; Statistical regression retrievals

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSONDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

INFRARED SOUNDERS; MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; RADIO OCCULATATION TECHNIQUES; STATISTICAL REGRESSION RETRIEVALS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 0036396440     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.492643     Document Type: Conference Paper

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