Effect of the oxygen line-parameter modeling on temperature and humidity retrievals from ground-based microwave radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2216-2223

  Cadeddu, Maria P ^a   Payne, Vivienne H ^b   Clough, S A ^b   Cady Pereira, K ^b   Liljegren, James C ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Oxygen absorption; Temperature retrieval; Water vapor retrieval

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; SPECTROSCOPIC PARAMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

EID: 34347205930     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.894063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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