Dependence of AMSU-A brightness temperatures on scattering from antarctic firn and correlation with polarization of SSM/I data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 769-773

  Rosenkranz, Philip W ^a   Mätzler, Christian ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU); Antarctic ice; Passive microwave remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ATMOSPHERICS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SPACE OPTICS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT (AMSU); ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ANTARCTIC ICE; ANTARCTICA; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; LAMBERTIAN; LAMBERTIAN SCATTERINGS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING MODELS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; SPECULAR REFLECTIONS; SURFACE REFLECTIVITIES; SURFACE SCATTERINGS; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; THERMAL EMISSIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 55649091234     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2005428     Document Type: Article

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