An Airborne radiometer for stratospheric water vapor measurements at 183 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1563-1570

  Vasić, Vladimir ^a   Feist, Dietrich G ^a   Müller, Stefan ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Microwave remote sensing; Quasi optics; Stratosphere; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATTENUATION; MIRRORS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TRANSPARENCY; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; QUASI OPTICS; RADIO OCCULATION; SUBMILLIMETER OBSERVING SYSTEM (AMSOS);

VAPORS;

EID: 23844442847     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.846860     Document Type: Article

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