Radiation characteristics of the selected channels for cirrus remote sensing in terahertz waveband and the influence factors for the retrieval method

LI Shu-Lei; LIU Lei; GAO Tai-Chang; SHI Li-Hua; QIU Shi; HU Shuai

doi:10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2018.01.012

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