Water vapor continuum absorption in the microwave

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2194-2208

  Payne, Vivienne H ^a   Mlawer, Eli J ^a   Cady Pereira, Karen E ^a   Moncet, Jean Luc ^a  

^a ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Microwave propagation; microwave radiometry; passive microwave remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONTINUUM MODEL; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SETS; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; EARTH REMOTE SENSING; GERMANY; GROUND-BASED RADIOMETERS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; HIGH FREQUENCY; HUMIDITY PROFILE; MICROWAVE PROPAGATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REGION; OKLAHOMA; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIOMETRICS; RADIOSONDE TEMPERATURE; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOSONDES; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER ABSORPTION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

WATER VAPOR;

ABSORPTION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIOSONDE; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; GERMANY; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79957656410     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2091416     Document Type: Article

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