On the challenges of tomography retrievals of a 2D water vapor field using ground-based microwave radiometers: An observation system simulation experiment

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 116-130

  Meunier, Véronique ^a   Turner, David D ^b   Kollias, Pavlos ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIOMETERS; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; INFORMATION CONTENTS; LIDAR MEASUREMENTS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OBSERVATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYERS; WATER VAPOR FIELDS;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; TOMOGRAPHY; TURBULENT BOUNDARY LAYER; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84921657048     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00194.1     Document Type: Article

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