Retrieving liquid water path and precipitable water vapor from the atmospheric radiation measurement (ARM) microwave radiometers

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3680-3689

  Turner, David D ^a   Clough, Sliepard A ^b   Liljegren, James C ^c   Clothiaux, Eugene E ^d   Cady Pereira, Karen E ^b   Gaustad, Krista L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Meteorology; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOPHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT (ARM); MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; RETRIEVAL METHODS;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 35648973241     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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