Comparison of WindSat brightness temperatures with two-scale model predictions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 549-559

  Lyzenga, David R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MICROWAVES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; VAPORS;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 33244497671     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.857082     Document Type: Article

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