PASSIVE MICROWAVE TECHNIQUE FOR PROFILING OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER-VAPOR

被引:45
作者
SCHAERER, G [1 ]
WILHEIT, TT [1 ]
机构
[1] NASA,GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CTR,GREENBELT,MD 20771
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10.1029/RS014i003p00371
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
A technique is developed for retrieval of water vapor profiles from microwave radiometric measurements near the 183‐GHz water vapor line. Weighting functions are developed which are useful in the retrievals and which permit insight as to the information content in a given measurement. Retrievals are performed using synthetic data. This paper is not subject to U.S. copyright. Published in 1979 by the American Geophysical Union.
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页码:371 / 375
页数:5
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