Satellite upper air network

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5548, Issue , 2004, Pages 128-140

  Reale, Tony ^a   Thorne, Peter ^b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Climate; Errors; Radiative transfer; Radiosonde; Satellite

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; POLAR SATELLITES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ERRORS; MICROWAVES; RADIATION; RADIOSONDES; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SATELLITES;

EID: 14944381192     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.560986     Document Type: Conference Paper

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