Thermodynamic atmospheric profiling during the 2010 winter olympics using ground-based microwave radiometry

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 12 PART 2, 2011, Pages 4959-4969

  Cimini, Domenico ^a,b   Campos, Edwin ^c   Ware, Randolph ^d,e,f   Albers, Steve ^g,h   Giuliani, Graziano ^b,i   Oreamuno, Jeos ^d   Joe, Paul ^j   Koch, Steve E ^k   Cober, Stewart ^j   Westwater, Ed ^f  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Radiometrics Corporation   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences ^*  (United States)

^g EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

ⁱ ABDUS SALAM INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Italy)

^j ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^k NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Bayesian variational methods; radiometry

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CLIMATE REGIONS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; CLOUD-BASE HEIGHT; GROUND BASED; HIGH PROBABILITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER PROFILERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; OLYMPICS; REAL TIME; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SNOW EVENT; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL METHODS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; WATER VAPOR;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER VAPOR;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; WHISTLER;

EID: 82155185323     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2154337     Document Type: Article

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