A new 22-GHz radiometer for middle atmospheric water vapor profile measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 974-984

  Deuber, Beat ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a   Feist, Dietrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calibration; Mesosphere; Microwave remote sensing; Stratosphere; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CALIBRATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OZONE; RADIOMETERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; VAPORS; WATER;

MESOSPHERE; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 1942495055     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.825581     Document Type: Article

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