Global distribution of water vapor and cloud cover-sites for high-performance THz applications

IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-100

  Suen, Jonathan Y ^a   Fang, Michael T ^b   Lubin, Philip M ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; radio astronomy; satellite communication; satellite ground station; submillimeter wave communication; submillimeter wave propagation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895058549     PISSN: 2156342X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2013.2294018     Document Type: Article

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