Realizing envisat's potential for rain cloud studies

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Quartly, Graham D ^a   Guymer, Trevor H ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RAIN; SENSORS; TROPICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

IN SITU MEASUREMENTS; MULTI-PLATFORM ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA;

HURRICANES;

CLOUD; ENVISAT-1; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; SATELLITE DATA;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST);

EID: 34347215441     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL028996     Document Type: Article

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