INDEX
Raman
effect, 227
Rayleigh, 108
scattering, 282
theory, 220
Rayleigh Jeans
law, 377
receiver
coherent, 336
receiver antenna, 325
reflectance factor, 278
reflecti vi ty, 360
reflector
parabolic, 279
refractive index, 251
regions
polar, 200
subsidence, 38
relaxation frequency, 505
remote sensing, 97
flux algorithms, 415
microwave, 489
resolution volume, 334
Reynolds
number, 60
ripples
small-scale ripples, 449
roughness of the sea, 463
RTE,118
runoff, 370
SAGE II, 181
salinity, 502
sampling
studies, 14
satellites, 196
DMSP, 467
instruments, 193
ScaRaB,151
scattering
event, 323
index, 464
inelastic, 225
matrix, 329
methods, 265
phase function, 99
Rayleigh, 195
regime, 557
Stokes, 225
successive orders, 111
scatterometer, 463
mode, 470
Seasat, 260
shear production, 66
SHEBA,50
Shuttle, 195
side lobes, 336
signal
613
minimum detectable received signal, 345
processing, 323
snow, 504
monitoring, 584
soil
moisture, 369
water content, 402
Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Continuum (SPAC),
369
soil-vegetation system, 370
speed of light, 327
split-window
channel, 436
technique, 558
SSM/I,464
stability parameter, 63
Stephan
constant, 101
storm track, 50
stratosphere, 8
structure functions, 60
structures
mesoscale, 130
sulfate, 45
sunlight
reflected, 194
sunphotometers, 180
surface
fluxes, 59
heat, 489
heterogeneous land surfaces, 416
hoar, 497
land surface type classification, 582
reference technique, 556
wind-induced surface roughness, 453
target
meteorological, 340
temperature
atmospheric, 193
thermodynamic equilibrium, 100
thermohaline, 549