Quantifying the difference between NWP surface temperatures and cloud free satellite apparent brightness temperatures

Contributions to Atmospheric Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 455-460

  Feijt, Arnout ^a   De Valk, Paul ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SATELLITE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

EID: 0032433350     PISSN: 00058173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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