Profiling Atmospheric Water Vapor with a K-Band Spectral Radiometer

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 3 II, 1999, Pages 1709-1718

  Scheve, Timothy M ^a   Swift, Calvin T ^a  

^a RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 33747869042     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.763292     Document Type: Article

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