Preliminary Validation and Performance of the Jason Microwave Radiometer

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 1077-1079

  Brown, Shannon ^a   Ruf, Chris ^a   Keihm, Steve ^b   Kitiyakara, Ami ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; JMR; Microwave radiometer; Path delay; Satellite; TMR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; ERRORS; POLARIZATION; RADIOMETERS; THERMAL EFFECTS; TROPOSPHERE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0242542549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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