Intercomparison of general purpose clear sky atmospheric radiative transfer models for the millimeter/submillimeter spectral range

Radio Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Melsheimer, C ^a   Verdes, C ^a   Buehler, S A ^a   Emde, C ^a   Eriksson, P ^b   Feist, D G ^c   Ichizawa, S ^d   John, V O ^a   Kasai, Y ^e   Kopp, G ^f   Koulev, N ^a   Kuhn, T ^a,j   Lemke, O ^a   Ochiai, S ^e   Schreier, F ^g   Sreerekha, T R ^a   Suzuki, M ^d   Takahashi, C ^h   Tsujimaru, S ^d,e   Urban, J ^b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

ⁱ OBSERVATOIRE DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; GAS ABSORPTION; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SUBMILLIMETER WAVES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; CONTINUUM ABSORPTION MODELS; FREQUENCY GRIDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA;

EID: 20244369755     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004RS003110     Document Type: Article

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