Passive microwave remote sensing of extreme weather events using NOAA-18 AMSUA and MHS

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2228-2246

  Boukabara, Sid Ahmed ^a,b   Weng, Fuzhong ^b   Liu, Quanhua ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric sounding; Data assimilation; Drop sonde; Hurricane; Microwave remote sensing; Retrieval algorithm

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION DECOMPOSITION; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; WEATHER FORECAST MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; HURRICANES; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 34347233019     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.898263     Document Type: Conference Paper

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