A microwave polarimetric two-stream radiative transfer model

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 2396-2402

  Liu, Quanhua ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; SATELLITES;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SURFACE OPTICAL PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERICS;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA;

EID: 0036693124     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<2396:AMPTSR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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