Distribution of tropospheric water vapor in clear and cloudy conditions from microwave radiometric profiling

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 600-615

  Iassamen, Alia ^a,b   Sauvageot, Henri ^a   Jeannin, Nicolas ^c   Ameur, Soltane ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ MOULOUD MAMMERI   (Algeria)

^c ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETRY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON EQUATIONS; CLOUDY CONDITIONS; DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE REGIONS; WATER VAPOR CONTENTS; WEIBULL PARAMETERS;

WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

DATA SET; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR; WEIBULL THEORY;

EID: 67549112831     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1916.1     Document Type: Article

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