Retrieval of total water vapour over the Arctic from space-bourne microwave radiometer data

The polar regions belong to the regions of which the least information is available about the current and predicted states of surface and atmosphere. We present advances in a method to determine the total (col-umn) water vapour (TWV) of the polar atmosphere over open water, sea ice and land ice from...

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Main Authors: Christian Melsheimer, Georg Heygster
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.552.6948
http://www.iup.uni-bremen.de/iuppage/psa/documents/melsheimer06.pdf
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Summary:The polar regions belong to the regions of which the least information is available about the current and predicted states of surface and atmosphere. We present advances in a method to determine the total (col-umn) water vapour (TWV) of the polar atmosphere over open water, sea ice and land ice from space-bourne microwave radiometer data, in particular data from the sensor AMSU-B (Advanced Microwave Sounding