The humidity sounder for Brazil - An international partnership

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 352-361

  Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H ^a   Calheiros, Roberta V ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Humidity measurement; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETRY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0038274151     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808304     Document Type: Article

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