1D-VAR retrieval of temperature and humidity profiles from ground-based microwave radiometers

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 235-240

  Hewison, Tim J ^a,b   Gaffard, Catherine ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Variational methods

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34250774878     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2006.1677095     Document Type: Conference Paper

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