Ocean water vapor and cloud liquid water trends from 1992 to 2005 TOPEX microwave radiometer data

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 114, Issue 18, 2009, Pages

  Keihm, S ^a   Brown, S ^a   Teixeira, J ^a   Desai, S ^a   Lu, W ^a   Fetzer, E ^a   Ruf, C ^b   Huang, X ^b   Yung, Y ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LIQUIDS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REGIONAL PLANNING; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ALIASING EFFECTS; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; DATA SETS; ERROR COMPONENTS; GLOBAL TRENDS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; MAXIMUM VALUES; MIDLATITUDES; OCEAN WATER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; REGIONAL SCALE; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SLOPE PARAMETER; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TOPEX MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS;

WATER VAPOR;

ALGORITHM; AUTOCORRELATION; CLOUD WATER; DATA SET; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL PERIOD; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 72049110816     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JD012145     Document Type: Article

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