Modeling and measurement of rainfall by ground-based Multispectral microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1000-1010

  Marzano, Frank Silvio ^a   Cimini, Domenico ^a   Ciotti, Piero ^a   Ware, Randolph ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b Radiometrics Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric retrieval; Ground based remote sensing; Microwave radiometry; Radiative transfer; Rainfall

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVAL; GROUND BASED REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 18444410725     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.839595     Document Type: Article

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