Brightness temperature sensitivity to variations in solid precipitation cloud profiles

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1378-1381

  Jackson, Gail Skofronick ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Millimeter wave; Precipitation; Retrievals; Snow

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MELTING; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; SNOW; VECTORS;

PASSIVE RADIOMETRIC CHANNELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RETRIEVALS; WEIGHTING VECTORS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 15944406065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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