PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES OF REMOTE SENSING
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION A MICROWAVE RADIOMETER SYSTEM BLACKBODY EMISSION LINEARIZED PLANCK FUNCTION STOKES VECTOR AND ITS TRANSFORMATION MICROWAVE SPECTRUM SPECTRAL RESPONSE FUNCTION MICROWAVE ANTENNA GAIN AND DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION MICROWAVE INSTRUMENT SCAN GEOMETRY MICROWAVE DATA RECORDS AND THEIR TERMINOLOGY ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION AND SCATTERING MICROWAVE GASEOUS ABSORPTION ABSORPTION LINE AND SHAPE OXYGEN ABSORPTION WATER VAPOR ABSORPTION NITROGEN AND OZONE ABSORPTION LINE-BY-LINE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL (LBLRTM) ZEEMAN SPLITTING ABSORPTION PARAMETERIZED TRANSMITTANCE MODEL CLOUD ABSORPTION AND SCATTERING SCATTERING PARAMETERS PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION RAYLEIGH APPROXIMATION HENYEY–GREENSTEIN AND RAYLEIGH PHASE MATRIX SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELING AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES RADIATIVE TRANSFER EQUATION VECTOR DISCRETE-ORDINATE METHOD RADIANCE GRADIENT OR JACOBIANS BENCHMARK TESTS THE ZEROTH-ORDER APPROXIMATION TO RADIATIVE TRANSFER SOLUTION THE FIRST-ORDER APPROXIMATION TO RADIATIVE TRANSFER SOLUTION OCEAN EMISSIVITY MODEL OCEAN ROUGHNESS PHENOMENA APPROXIMATION OF WATER DIELECTRIC CONSTANT OCEAN ROUGHNESS HEIGHTS AND SPECTRUM FOAM COVERAGE SURFACE EMISSIVITY VECTOR LAND EMISSIVITY MODEL THEORETICAL APPROACH FOR LAND EMISSION OPTICAL PARAMETERS OF VEGETATION CANOPY OPTICAL PARAMETERS OF SNOW SURFACE RE?ECTION AT LAYER INTERFACES SOIL DIELECTRIC CONSTANT SIMULATED SURFACE EMISSIVITY SPECTRA MICROWAVE RADIANCE SIMULATIONS FAST RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS CALCULATIONS OF ANTENNA BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES SIMULATIONS OF ATMS SOUNDING CHANNELS USING GLOBAL FORECAST MODEL OUTPUTS SIMULATIONS OF ATMS SOUNDING CHANNELS USING GPSRO DATA COLLOCATION OF GPS RO AND ATMS DATA ATMS BIAS WITH RESPECT TO GPS RO DATA USES OF TRMM-DERIVED HYDROMETEOR DATA IN RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS COLLOCATION OF ATMS AND TRMM DATA ATMS BIASES WITH RESPECT TO TRMM-DERIVED SIMULATIONS ADVANCED RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS CALIBRATION OF MICROWAVE SOUNDING INSTRUMENTS CALIBRATION CONCEPT ATMS INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION ATMS RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATION IMPACTS OF ATMS ANTENNA EMISSION ON TWO-POINT CALIBRATION RETRIEVAL OF RE?ECTOR EMISSIVITY USING ATMS PITCH-OVER DATA ATMS NOISE-EQUIVALENT DI?ERENCE TEMPERATURE (NEDT) CONVERSION FROM ANTENNA TO SENSOR BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION DETECTION OF INTERFERENCE SIGNALS AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETERS AND DATA SETS RADIO-FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE SIGNALS IN MICROWAVE DATA DETECTION OF RFI OVER LAND DOUBLE PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (DPCA) SPECTRAL DI?ERENCE METHOD RFI DETECTION OVER OCEANS MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF SURFACE PARAMETERS REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN SURFACE PARAMETERS RETRIEVALS OF SURFACE WIND VECTOR SIMULTANEOUS RETRIEVAL OF SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND WIND SPEED REMOTE SENSING OF LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS RETRIEVALS OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL OF LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY ERROR SENSITIVITY OF LAND SURFACE EMISSIVITY FAST LAND EMISSIVITY ALGORITHMS REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUDS FROM MICROWAVE SOUNDING INSTRUMENTS REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD LIQUID WATER PRINCIPLE OF MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUDS CLOUD LIQUID WATER ALGORITHM REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUD ICE WATER MICROWAVE SCATTERING FROM ICE-PHASE CLOUD CLOUD ICE WATER RETRIEVAL ALGORITHM CLOUD VERTICAL STRUCTURES FROM MICROWAVE DOUBLE OXYGEN BANDS FY-3C MICROWAVE SOUNDING INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR CHANNEL PAIRING TYPHOON NEOGURI OBSERVED BY MWHS AND MWTS THE CLOUD EMISSION AND SCATTERING INDEX (CESI) MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING OF ATMOSPHERIC PRO?LES MICROWAVE SOUNDING PRINCIPLE REGRESSION ALGORITHMS ONE-DIMENSIONAL VARIATIONAL (1DVAR) THEORY MULTIPLE 1DVARS FOR ALL-WEATHER PRO?LES MICROWAVE INTEGRATED RETRIEVAL SYSTEM (MIRS) ASSIMILATION OF MICROWAVE DATA IN REGIONAL NWP MODELS NCEP GSI ANALYSIS SYSTEM ATMS DATA ASSIMILATION IN HWRF HURRICANE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECAST (HWRF) SYSTEM HURRICANE EVENTS IN ATMS DATA QUALITY CONTROL COMPARISON BETWEEN (O – B) AND (O – A) STATISTICS IMPACT OF ATMS DATA ON FORECASTING TRACK AND INTENSITY SSMIS DATA ASSIMILATION SSMIS INSTRUMENT SSMIS DATA QUALITY CONTROL SSMIS BIAS CORRECTION IMPACTS FROM SSMIS AND AMSU-A DATA ASSIMILATION IMPACT OF SSMIS LAS DATA ON GFS OPERATIONAL FORECASTS APPLICATIONS OF MICROWAVE DATA IN CLIMATE STUDIES CLIMATE TREND THEORY A LONG-TERM CLIMATE DATA RECORD FROM SSM/I SIMULTANEOUS CONICAL OVERPASSING (SCO) METHOD BIAS CHARACTERIZATION OF SPECI?C SSM/I INSTRUMENT RADCAL BEACON INTERFERENCE WITH F15 SSM/I SSM/I INTERSENSOR BIAS CORRECTION IMPACT OF CROSS-CALIBRATION ON SSM/I SDR IMPACTS OF SSM/I INTERSENSOR CALIBRATION ON TPW A LONG-TERM CLIMATE DATA RECORD FROM MSU/AMSU IMPACTS OF CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION ON AMSU-A TRENDS EMISSION AND SCATTERING E?ECT ON AMSU-A AMSU-A BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE TREND ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE TREND FROM 1DVAR RETRIEVAL CLIMATE APPLICATIONS OF 1DVAR MSU AND AMSU-A CROSS-CALIBRATION CLOUD DETECTION ALGORITHM FOR MSU APPLICATIONS TEMPERATURE TREND FROM 1DVAR REFERENCES