Intercomparison of deep convective cloud fractions from passive infrared and microwave radiance measurements

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-22

  Hong, Gang ^a   Heygster, Georg ^a   Kunzi, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit B (AMSU B); Deep convective cloud; Infrared radiance; Microwave radiance

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B (AMSU-B); DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; INFRARED RADIANCE; MICROWAVE RADIANCE;

CLOUDS;

EID: 12844250069     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.838405     Document Type: Article

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