Calibration and verification of land surface temperature anomalies derived from the SSM/I

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 2141-2156

  Williams, Claude N ^a,c   Basist, Alan ^a   Peterson, Thomas C ^a   Grody, Norman ^b  

^a NESDIS/NOAA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0007309119     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0477(2000)081<2141:CAVOLS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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