The retrieval of planetary boundary layer structure using ground-based infrared spectral radiance measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 323-333

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

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA PROCESSING; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; INFRARED IMAGERY; INTERFEROMETRY; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0032756534     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1999)016<0323:tropbl>2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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