A real-time global half-hourly pixel-resolution infrared dataset and its applications

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 205-217

  Janowiak, John E ^a,c   Joyce, Robert J ^b   Yarosh, Yelena ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Res and Data Systems Corporation   (United States)

^c CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0002851213     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2001)082<0205:ARTGHH>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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