Modifications to the water vapor continuum in the microwave suggested by ground-based 150-GHz observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3326-3337

  Turner, David D ^a   Cadeddu, Maria P ^b   Lohnert, Ulrich ^c   Crewell, Susanne ^c   Vogelmann, Andrew M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Microwave measurements; Microwave propagation; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION MODEL; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; GERMANY; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE SPECTRUM; MODIFIED MODEL; ORIGINAL MODEL; OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; SKY CONDITION; TWO-COMPONENT; WAVE PROPAGATION MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR; WAVE PROPAGATION;

MICROWAVES;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLEAR SKY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MAS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 70350618323     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2022262     Document Type: Article

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