Investigating water vapor variability by ground-based microwave radiometry: Evaluation using airborne observations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-161

  Kneifel, Stefan ^a   Crewell, Susanne ^a   Löhnert, Ulrich ^a   Schween, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; VAPORS; WATER VAPOR;

AIRBORNE OBSERVATIONS; AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENTS; GERMANY; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MOBILE FACILITIES; NEW APPROACHES; SCAN PATTERNS; SCANNING OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SUBGRID VARIABILITIES; SURFACE INTERACTIONS; TEMPORAL VARIATIONS;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 58149503737     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2007659     Document Type: Article

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