Role of variation in vertical profiles of relative humidity on retrieval of humidity from AMSU-B data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2004, Pages 1-4

  Jethva, Hiren ^a   Srinivasan, J ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

0365 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Troposphere Composition and chemistry; 3359 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Radiative processes; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVES; RADIOSONDES; TROPOSPHERE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE (BT); NATURAL LOGARITHM; RADIATIVE TRANSFER (RT); RELATIVE HUMIDITY (RH);

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 16644390434     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021098     Document Type: Article

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