Aircraft millimeter-wave passive sensing of cloud liquid water and water vapor during VOCALS-REx

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 355-369

  Zuidema, P ^a   Leon, D ^b   Pazmany, A ^c   Cadeddu, M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c ProSensing Inc   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; CLOUD COVER; CLOUD WATER; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; RADIOMETER; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84861547683     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-12-355-2012     Document Type: Article

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