ASMUWARA, a ground-based radiometer system for tropospheric monitoring

Meteorologische Zeitschrift

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-17

  Martin, Lorenz ^a   Schneebeli, Marc ^a   Mätzler, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; TROPOSPHERE;

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; RADIOMETER; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 33646040990     PISSN: 09412948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0941-2948/2006/0092     Document Type: Article

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