An overview of the AIRS radiative transfer model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 303-313

  Strow, L Larrabee ^a   Hannon, Scott E ^a   De Souza Machado, Sergio ^a   Motteler, Howard E ^a   Tobin, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric retrievals; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; OZONE; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; ALGORITHMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE; GASES; PARAMETERIZATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER RADIATIVE TRANSFER ALGORITHM (AIRS-RTA); ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVALS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCES; WATER VAPOR RETRIEVALS;

REMOTE SENSING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 0037936850     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808244     Document Type: Review

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