ECMWF analyses of humidity: Comparisons to POLDER estimates over land

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 469-480

  Vesperini, Michèle ^a  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; EARTH (PLANET); FORECASTING; TROPICS; VAPORS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

TOTAL COLUMN WATER VAPOUR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

HUMIDITY; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; POLDER; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0036788877     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00070-6     Document Type: Article

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