Estimation of humidity profiles with the L-band boundary layer radar-RASS measurements

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 895-908

  Furumoto, Jun Ichi ^a   Iwai, Satoshi ^a,b   Fujii, Hideyuki ^c   Tsuda, Toshitaka ^a   Xin, Wang ^d   Koike, Toshio ^c   Bian, Lingen ^d  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 29144536335     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.83.895     Document Type: Article

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