Deriving the tropospheric integrated water vapor from tipping curve-derived opacity near 22 GHz

Radio Science

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Deuber, Beat ^a,b   Morland, June ^a   Martin, Lorenz ^a   Kämpfer, Niklaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b BKW FMB Energy   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; OPACITY; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VAPORS;

ABSORPTION MODEL; LINEAR RELATION; WATER CONTENT;

TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 29144470351     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004RS003233     Document Type: Article

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