Measurement of tropospheric/stratospheric transmission at 10-35 GHz for H2O retrieval in low Earth orbiting satellite links

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Eriksson, Patrick ^a   Jiménez, Carlos ^a   Murtagh, Donal ^a   Elgered, Gunnar ^a   Kuhn, Thomas ^b   Bühler, Stefan ^b  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric absorption; Limb sounding; Microwaves; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; RADIO WAVES; REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL NOISE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

WATER VAPOR RETRIEVAL;

SATELLITE LINKS;

EID: 0142219859     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002638     Document Type: Article

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