AIRS/AMSU/HSB validation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 418-431

  Fetzer, Eric ^a   McMillin, Larry M ^b   Tobin, David ^c   Aumann, Hartmut H ^a   Gunson, Michael R ^a   Wallace McMillan, W ^d   Hagan, Denise E ^a   Hofstadter, Mark D ^a   Yoe, James ^b   Whiteman, David N ^e   Barnes, John E ^f   Bennartz, Ralf ^g   Vömel, Holger ^h   Von Walden, ⁱ   Newchurch, Michael ^j   Minnett, Peter J ^k   Atlas, Robert ^e   Schmidlin, Francis ^e   Olsen, Edward T ^a   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^b   Zhou, Sisong ^b   Ding, HanJung ^b   Smith, William L ^l   Revercomb, Hank ^c   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Natl Oceanic/Atmosph Admin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^h Natl Oceanic Atmosph CM DL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^l NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Atmospheric measurements; Infrared spectroscopy; Inverse problems; Microwave radiometry; Remote sensing; Terrestrial atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY;

METEOROLOGY;

EID: 0037936848     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808293     Document Type: Article

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