Operational profiling of temperature using ground-based microwave radiometry at Payerne: Prospects and challenges

Atmospheric Measurement Techniques

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1121-1134

  Lohnert U ^a   Maier, O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIOSONDE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WEATHER STATION;

PAYERNE; SWITZERLAND; VAUD;

EID: 84861533869     PISSN: 18671381     EISSN: 18678548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/amt-5-1121-2012     Document Type: Article

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