Improved retrieval of total water vapor over polar regions from AMSU-B microwave radiometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2307-2322

  Melsheimer, Christian ^a   Heygster, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry; Polar regions; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VAPORS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; POLAR ATMOSPHERE; POLAR REGIONS; POLAR-ORBITING SATELLITES; SPACE-BORNE; SURFACE EMISSIVITIES; TOTAL WATER VAPOR;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 40749120838     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.918013     Document Type: Article

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