Refined physical retrieval of integrated water vapor and cloud liquid for microwave radiometer data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1585-1594

  Mätzler, Christian ^a   Morland, June ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ATMOSPHERIC WATER; BIAS CORRECTION; CLIMATE STUDIES; DATA ANALYSIS; DIELECTRIC MODELS; DYNAMIC PROCESS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; LIQUID WATER; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PHYSICAL RETRIEVALS; PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT; PROPAGATION PROPERTIES; STATISTICAL RETRIEVAL; SURFACE-BASED; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

LIQUIDS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFINING; WATER ABSORPTION;

WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; WATER VAPOR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 67349159362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2006984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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