The emissivity of the ocean surface between 6 and 90 GHzover a large range of wind speeds and earth incidence angles

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3004-3026

  Meissner, Thomas ^a   Wentz, Frank J ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

High wind speeds; microwave radiometer calibration; ocean surface emissivity; radiative transfer model (RTM); Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM I); Step Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR); Stokes' parameters; WindSat

Indexed keywords

HIGH WIND SPEED; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER; STOKES' PARAMETERS; WINDSAT;

CALIBRATION; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SENSORS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; EMISSIVITY; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE; SIR; STOKES FORMULA; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84864287859     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2179662     Document Type: Article

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