High-resolution forecast models of water vapor over mountains: Comparison with MERIS and meteosat data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 401-405

  Zhu, Min ^a,b   Wadge, Geoff ^b   Holley, Rachel J ^b   James, Ian N ^b   Clark, Peter A ^c   Wang, Changgui ^b   Woodage, Margaret J ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry (DInSAR); Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (meris); Meteosat; Unified model; Water vapor (WV)

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR INTERFEROMETRY (DINSAR); MEDIUM RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETER (MERIS); METEOSAT; UNIFIED MODEL;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RADIOMETERS; VOLCANOES; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EID: 34547202463     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.895884     Document Type: Article

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