Comparison of MM5 integrated water vapor with microwave radiometer, GPS, and radiosonde measurements

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1050-1057

  Memmo, Adelaide ^a   Fionda, Ermanno ^b   Paolucci, Tiziana ^a   Cimini, Domenico ^a   Ferretti, Rossella ^a,c   Bonafoni, Stefania ^d   Ciotti, Piero ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

^c Department of Physics ^*  (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Global positioning system (GPS); Mesoscale; Microwave radiometer; Model (MM5); Water vapor

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS; VAPORS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

INTEGRATED PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR (IPWV); MESOSCALE MODELS (MM5); MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; SEASONAL ANALYSIS;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84977538267     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.841488     Document Type: Article

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