Fast radiative transfer model for simulation of infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer radiances

Applied Optics

Volumn 38, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 5679-5691

  Matricardi, Marco ^a   Saunders, Roger ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INFRARED TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FAST RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS (IASI); LINE-BY-LINE MODEL TRANSMITTANCES;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 0032606187     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.38.005679     Document Type: Article

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