Introduction of a melting layer model to a rain retrieval algorithm for microwave radiometers

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages 3404-3409

  Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a   Awaka, Jun ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Melting layer model; Passive microwave radiometer; TRMM

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIO WAVES;

MELTING LAYER MODEL; PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; TRMM;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 33745712423     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2005.1526573     Document Type: Conference Paper

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