Meteorological applications of temperature and water vapor retrievals from the ground-based Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 857-875

  Feltz, Wayne F ^a,c   Smith, William L ^a,b   Knuteson, Robert O ^a   Revercomb, Henry E ^a   Woolf, Harold M ^a   Howell, H Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 0032462032     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0857:MAOTAW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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