Utilization of the AMSU high frequency measurements for improved coastal rain retrievals

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 17, 2007, Pages

  Kongoli, Cezar ^a,b   Ferraro, Ralph R ^a   Pellegrino, Paul ^a,b   Meng, Huan ^a,b   Dean, Charles ^a,b  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COASTAL ZONES; COSINE TRANSFORMS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; SCATTERING; WATER VAPOR;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU); BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ICE WATER PATH; MICROWAVE WINDOW FREQUENCY MEASUREMENTS; OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY;

RAIN GAGES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COASTAL ZONE; EMISSIVITY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MONITORING; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 35948979996     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL029940     Document Type: Article

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