Ground-based millimeter- and submillimiter-wave observations of the arctic atmosphere

2006 IEEE MicroRad Proceedings - 9th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing Applications, MicroRad'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 247-251

  Cimini, Domenico ^a,b,f,g   Westwater, Ed R ^a   Gasiewski, Al J ^a   Klein, Marian ^a   Leuski, Vladimir ^a   Mattioli, Vinia ^c   Dowlatshahi, Sally ^d   Liljegren, Jim ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^d SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CU/CIRES NOAA/PSD ^*  (United States)

^g IMAA CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE DEMODULATORS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; CHANNEL SCANNING RADIOMETERS; GROUND BASED SCANNING RADIOMETERS (GSR); MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

SUBMILLIMETER WAVES;

EID: 34250764114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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