Comparison of ground-based millimeter-wave observations and simulations in the arctic winter

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3098-3106

  Cimini, Domenico ^a   Nasir, Francesco ^g   Westwater, Ed R ^b   Payne, Vivienne H ^c   Turner, David D ^d   Mlawer, Eli J ^c   Exner, Michael L ^e   Cadeddu, Maria P ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

^c ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e Radiometrics Corporation   (United States)

^f ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Arctic regions; Atmospheric measurements; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; CROSS VALIDATION; DATA SETS; DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS; DRY CONDITION; FORWARD MODELS; GROUND BASED; MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETERS; MODEL ERRORS; MODEL SIMULATION; RADIATIVE HEATING; RADIOSONDE HUMIDITY PROFILES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TEMPERATURE RESIDUALS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSONDES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

SIMULATORS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETER; RADIOSONDE; WATER VAPOR;

ALASKA; BARROW; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349316730     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2020743     Document Type: Article

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