Remote sensing of surface and cloud properties in the Arctic from AVHRR measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 989-1012

  Han, W ^a,c   Stammes, K ^a   Lubin, Dan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SFA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); RADIATION TRANSFER MODEL;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLOUD; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIOMETER; REFLECTANCE; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

ARCTIC;

EID: 0032754461     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0989:RSOSAC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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