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            https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1055-2015
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1055-2015
                    © Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under 
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
                the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
A layer-averaged relative humidity profile retrieval for microwave observations: design and results for the Megha-Tropiques payload
R. G. Sivira
                                            Université Versailles St-Quentin; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06; CNRS/INSU, LATMOS-IPSL, Guyancourt, France
                                        
                                    
                                            now at: Meteo Protect SAS, Paris, France
                                        
                                    H. Brogniez
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
                                            
                                    
                                            Université Versailles St-Quentin; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06; CNRS/INSU, LATMOS-IPSL, Guyancourt, France
                                        
                                    C. Mallet
                                            Université Versailles St-Quentin; Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06; CNRS/INSU, LATMOS-IPSL, Guyancourt, France
                                        
                                    Y. Oussar
                                            Laboratoire de Physique et d'Etudes des Matériaux (LPEM), UMR8213, ESPCI-ParisTech, Paris, France
                                        
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- Statistical downscaling of water vapour satellite measurements from profiles of tropical ice clouds G. Carella et al. 10.5194/essd-12-1-2020
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- Validation of Upper-Tropospheric Humidity from SAPHIR on board Megha-Tropiques Using Tropical Soundings H. Brogniez et al. 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0096.1
- Observed Evolution of the Tropical Atmospheric Water Cycle with Sea Surface Temperature E. Höjgård-Olsen et al. 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0468.1
- Tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal tracked by Megha-Tropiques SAPHIR during 2011–2018 M. Vasudha & G. Raju 10.1007/s12040-019-1122-9
- Sugar, Gravel, Fish, and Flowers: Dependence of Mesoscale Patterns of Trade‐Wind Clouds on Environmental Conditions S. Bony et al. 10.1029/2019GL085988
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