Horizontal-humidity gradient from one single-scanning microwave radiometer

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 336-340

  Schween, Jan H ^a   Crewell, S ^a   Lohnert U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; humidity measurement; meteorology; passive microwave remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; CLOUD LIQUID WATERS; CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY; FRONTAL SYSTEM; GRADIENT MODEL; HUMIDITY MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY VARIABILITY; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

HUMIDITY SENSORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

EID: 79952039697     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2010.2072981     Document Type: Article

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