A neural network for real-time retrievals of PWV and LWP from arctic millimeter-wave ground-based observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1887-1900

  Cadeddu, Maria P ^a   Turner, David D ^b   Liljegren, James C ^a  

^a ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground based microwave radiometry; Inverse problems; Millimeter wave measurements; Neural network (NN) applications

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CLIMATE RESEARCH; DOWN-WELLING; ERROR BARS; GROUND-BASED MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; LIQUID WATER; LIQUID WATER PATHS; LONG WAVES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MILLIMETER-WAVE MEASUREMENTS; NEURAL NETWORK (NN) APPLICATIONS; NON-LINEAR REGIMES; PHYSICAL RETRIEVALS; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; STATISTICAL RETRIEVAL; SURFACE FLUX; TRAINING DATA SETS; TWO-CHANNEL; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LIQUIDS; MICROWAVES; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

WATER VAPOR;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REAL TIME;

EID: 67651160357     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2013205     Document Type: Article

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