Atmospheric water vapor content from spaceborne polder measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 II, 1999, Pages 1597-1612

  Vesperini, Michèle ^a,b   Bréon, Francois Marie ^a,b   Tanre D ^a,b  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

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EID: 33747831144     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763273     Document Type: Article

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