Temperature and humidity profiling in the Arctic using millimeter-wave radiometry

2008 Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment - 10th Specialist Meeting, Proceedings, MICRORAD

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Cimini, Domenico ^b   Westwater, Ed R ^a,c   Gasiewski, Albin J ^a,c   Klein, Marian ^a,d   Leuski, Vladimir ^d  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic regions; Atmospheric measurements; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; EXPERIMENTS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; WATER VAPOR;

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAM; GROUND-BASED SCANNING; HUMIDITY PROFILES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIATIVE HEATING; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SUB-MILLIMETER WAVES; VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 52149084764     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRAD.2008.4579484     Document Type: Conference Paper

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