AIRS/AMSU/HSB on the aqua mission: Design, science objectives, data products, and processing systems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 253-264

  Aumann, Hartmut H ^a   Chahine, Moustafa T ^a   Gautier, Catherine ^b   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^c   Kalnay, Eugenia ^d   McMillin, Larry M ^c   Revercomb, Hank ^e   Rosenkranz, Philip W ^f   Smith, William L ^g   Staelin, David H ^f   Strow, L Larrabee ^h   Susskind, Joel ⁱ  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Natl Oceanic/Atmosph Admin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Greenhouse gases; Humidity sounder; Hyperspectral; Infrared; Microwave; Temperature sounder; Weather forecasting

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS);

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

EID: 0037936852     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808356     Document Type: Review

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