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Science 2 September 1977:
Vol. 197. no. 4307, pp. 991 - 993
DOI: 10.1126/science.197.4307.991
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Microwave Spectroscopic Imagery of the Earth

D. H. STAELIN 1, P. W. ROSENKRANZ 1, F. T. BARATH 2, E. J. JOHNSTON 2, and J. W. WATERS 2

1 Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139
2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena 91103

The microwave spectrometer on the Nimbus 6 satellite has produced the first microwave spectral images of the earth. It has yielded global maps of (i) atmospheric temperature profiles, (ii) the distributions of water vapor and liquid water over ocean, and (iii) the coverage and type of ice and snow. The method has potential for operational synoptic monitoring.

Submitted on August 10, 1976
Revised on April 13, 1977


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