This paper describes the characteristics of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) onboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP),analyzes absorbing,re-emitting and scattering effects of the atmosphe...
This work was supported by NASDA(Japan)under Contract No.A2-RA-A-0017;by Committee of Science and Technology of China for a microwave remote sensing project.
A collocated SSM/I and radiosonde measurement data set provided by the NASDA(Japan) was used to retrieve the total precipitable water(PW)over oceans.The retrieval results obtained with several regression algorithms we...