HAMSTRAD-tropo, A 183-GHz radiometer dedicated to sound tropospheric water vapor over concordia station, Antarctica

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART2, 2010, Pages 1365-1380

  Ricaud, Philippe ^a   Gabard, Benjamin ^b   Derrien, Solène ^a   Chaboureau, Jean Pierre ^a   Rose, Thomas ^c   Mombauer, Andreas ^c   Czekala, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b ONERA   (France)

^c Radiometer Physics GmbH (RPG)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Humidity measurement; Microwave measurements; Microwave radiometry

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY; ANTARCTICA; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; DATA SETS; DRY ENVIRONMENT; GROUND BASED; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENTS; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; LIQUID WATER PATHS; MESOSCALE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OXYGEN LINE; RADIO SOUNDINGS; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART TECHNOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); DOMES; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; VAPORS;

TROPOSPHERE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OXYGEN; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ANTARCTICA; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; FRANCE; HAUTE PYRENEES; MIDI-PYRENEES; PIC DU MIDI; PYRENEES;

EID: 77951295426     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2029345     Document Type: Article

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