Weather and climate analyses using improved global water vapor observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2012, Pages

  Vonder Haar, Thomas H ^a,b   Bytheway, Janice L ^a,b   Forsythe, John M ^a,c  

^a SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; NASA;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; CLIMATE ANALYSIS; DATA SETS; EARTH SCIENCE DATA; GLOBAL DATA; MULTIPLE SOURCE; PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR; RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT; USER NEED;

VAPORS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; DATA SET; RESEARCH PROGRAM; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER;

EID: 84864657208     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052094     Document Type: Article

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