Measurements and retrievals from a new 183-GHz water-vapor radiometer in the arctic

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2207-2215

  Cadeddu, Maria P ^b   Liljegren, James C ^b   Pazmany, Andrew L ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c ProSensing Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

183 GHz; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Water vapor retrieval

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER VAPOR;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; PROSENSING INC., (CO);

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 34347260599     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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