The Effect of the Melting Layer on the Microwave Emission of Clouds over the Ocean

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 852-867

  Bauer, P ^a,c   Poiares Baptista, J P V ^b   De Iulis, M ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c SERVICE D AÉRONOMIE DU CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ICE; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MELTING; MICROWAVES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PERMITTIVITY; WATER;

ALBEDO; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0345103411     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1999)056<0852:TEOTML>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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