Surface emissivity of arctic sea ice at AMSU window frequencies

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2298-2306

  Mathew, Nizy ^a   Heygster, Georg ^a   Melsheimer, Christian ^a   Kaleschke, Lars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emissivity; Principal emitting layer temperature

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ICE; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WINDOWS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; AIR TEMPERATURES; ARCTIC SEA-ICE; ATMOSPHERIC PARAMETERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DEVELOPMENT STAGES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; EMISSIVITY; EMITTING LAYERS; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; POLAR REGIONS; PRINCIPAL EMITTING-LAYER TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SURFACE EMISSIVITIES; SURFACE PENETRATION; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERE; WINDOW CHANNELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 48849083295     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916630     Document Type: Article

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