Measurement of low amounts of precipitable water vapor using ground-based millimeterwave radiometry

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 317-337

  Racette, Paul E ^a   Westwater, Ed R ^b   Han, Yong ^c   Gasiewski, Albin J ^d   Klein, Marian ^b   Cimini, Domenico ^e   Jones, David C ^f   Manning, Will ^g   Kim, Edward J ^a   Wang, James R ^a   Leuski, Vladimir ^b   Kiedron, Peter ^h  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^f MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^h STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY;

DRY ATMOSPHERE; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR (PWV); URBAN SPATIAL INFORMATION; WATER-VAPOR ABSORPTION;

VAPORS;

RADIOMETRIC METHOD; WATER VAPOR;

PASSION FRUIT WOODINESS VIRUS;

EID: 20444478583     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH1711.1     Document Type: Article

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