AIRS near-real-time products and algorithms in support of operational numerical weather prediction

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 379-389

  Goldberg, Mitchell D ^a   Qu, Yanni ^c   McMillin, Larry M ^a   Wolf, Walter ^b   Zhou, Lihang ^b   Divakarla, Murty ^c  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^c Decision Systems Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric retrieval; Atmospheric soundings; Eigenvectors; Hyperspectral; Infrared; Microwave; Principal components; Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA COMPRESSION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0038274152     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808307     Document Type: Article

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