Temperature and humidity profiling in the arctic using ground-based millimeter-wave radiometry and 1DVAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 3 PART2, 2010, Pages 1381-1388

  Cimini, Domenico ^a   Westwater, Ed R ^b   Gasiewski, Albin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic regions; Atmospheric measurements; Radiometry

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION MEASUREMENT PROGRAMS; GROUND BASED; GROUND-BASED SCANNING; HUMIDITY PROFILE; INTEGRATED WATER VAPORS; MILLIMETER-WAVE RADIOMETRY; RADIATIVE HEATING; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; VERTICAL RESOLUTION;

RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; RADIOMETER; RADIOSONDE; RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

ALASKA; BARROW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865111784     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2030500     Document Type: Article

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