A review of the remote sensing of lower tropospheric thermodynamic profiles and its indispensable role for the understanding and the simulation of water and energy cycles

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 819-895

  Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a   Hardesty, R Michael ^b   Turner, David D ^c   Behrendt, Andreas ^a   Cadeddu, Maria P ^d   Di Girolamo, Paolo ^e   Schlüssel, Peter ^f   Van Baelen, Joël ^g   Zus, Florian ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^f EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^g Universite Blaise Pascal   (France)

^h GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

atmospheric boundary layer; data assimilation; energy and water cycle; IR and MW remote sensing; lidar; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BALLOONS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MICROWAVE SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL RADAR; TROPOSPHERE; WATER ABSORPTION; WATER VAPOR;

ACTIVE REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS; ATMOSPHERIC SURFACE LAYERS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION LIDARS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; WATER CYCLE;

REMOTE SENSING;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIDAR; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; THERMODYNAMICS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84945476550     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: 19449208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014RG000476     Document Type: Review

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