Vicarious calibration of the third and fourth Stokes parameters of Windsat measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 34, 2005, Pages 7403-7406

  Liu, Quanhua ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b  

^a QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; VECTORS;

ABSOLUTE CALIBRATION; STOKES PARAMETER; WIND VECTOR RETRIEVALS; WINDSAT MEASUREMENTS;

WIND EFFECTS;

EID: 29344441938     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.007403     Document Type: Article

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