Arctic polar low detection and monitoring using atmospheric water vapor retrievals from satellite passive microwave data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3302-3310

  Bobylev, Leonid P ^a,b   Zabolotskikh, Elizaveta V ^a   Mitnik, Leonid M ^c   Mitnik, Maia L ^c  

^a NANSEN INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTRE   (Russian Federation)

^b NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^c IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Multisensor data; polar lows (PLs); satellite passive microwave data; total atmospheric water vapor content

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITES; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; COMPLETE INFORMATION; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAM SATELLITES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MEASUREMENT DATA; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MULTI-SENSOR DATA; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OPEN WATER; POLAR LOWS; REANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE DATA; SCATTEROMETERS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; TOTAL ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR CONTENT; TWO STAGE; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VORTEX STRUCTURES; WEATHER EVENTS; WIND FIELD;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VORTEX FLOW; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

AMSR-E; AQUA (SATELLITE); ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MONITORING; OPEN WATER; POLAR REGION; RADAR IMAGERY; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; SURFACE AREA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER VAPOR; WIND FIELD;

ARCTIC;

EID: 80052338384     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2143720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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