Ground-based millimeter- And submillimeter-wave observations of low vapor and liquid water contents

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2169-2180

  Cimini, Domenico ^b,c,d   Westwater, Ed R ^a,e,f   Gasiewski, Albin J ^a,g   Klein, Marian ^a,f   Leuski, Vladimir Ye ^f   Liljegren, James C ^h  

^a IEEE

^b Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^e Center for Environmental Technology   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^g UCB 450   (United States)

^h ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; DATA SETS; HYDROMETEOR SCATTERING; INSTRUMENTAL NOISE;

HYDROMETERS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

EID: 34347216297     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897450     Document Type: Conference Paper

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