MIAWARA-C, a new ground based water vapor radiometer for measurement campaigns

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1271-1285

  Straub, C ^a   Murk, A ^a   Kampfer N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; EOS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; NITROGEN; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER STATION;

FINLAND; LAPPI [FINLAND]; SODANKYLA;

EID: 79960486680     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-3-1271-2010     Document Type: Article

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