Clouds and the earth's radiant energy system (CERES): Algorithm overview

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1127-1141

  Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Barkstrom, Bruce R ^b   Baum, Bryan A ^c   Charlock, Thomas P ^d   Green, Richard N ^e   Kratz, David P ^f   Lee Robert, B ^g   Minnis, Patrick ^j   Louis Smith, G ^k   Wong, Takmeng ^f   Young, David F ^l   Cess, Robert D ^a   Coakley Jr , James A ^b   Crommelynck, Dominique A H ^d,e   Donner, Léo ^f   Kandel, Robert ^g   King, Michael D ^h   Miller, Alvin J ^c,d   Ramanathan, Veerabhadran ⁱ   Randall, David A ^a,j   Stowe, Larry L ^k   Welch, Ronald M ^f   more..

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^f NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Algorithms; Clouds; Meteorology; Radiation monitoring

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE SENSORS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES); EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0032120049     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.701020     Document Type: Article

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