Evidence of possible sea-ice influence on microwave sounding unit tropospheric temperature trends in polar regions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 20, 2003, Pages

  Swanson, Richard E ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVES; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TROPOSPHERE; ICE; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; SEA ICE;

MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (MSU); RADIOSONDE DATA; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; HIGH LATITUDES; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; RADIOSONDE DATAS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

SEA ICE; CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE;

EID: 1242277714     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017938     Document Type: Article

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