Can liquid water profiles be retrieved from passive microwave zenith observations?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Creweil, Susanne ^a   Ebell, Kerstin ^a   Löhnert, Ulrich ^a   Turner, D D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD BASE; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; INSTRUMENT NOISE; LIQUID CLOUD; LIQUID WATER; LIQUID WATER CONTENT; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; NUMBER OF DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SINGLE LAYER; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; WATER CONTENT;

LIQUIDS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD WATER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; NOISE; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER CONTENT; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 66949141118     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036934     Document Type: Article

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