Retrieval of atmospheric and surface parameters from AIRS/AMSU/HSB data in the presence of clouds

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 390-409

  Susskind, Joel ^a   Barnet, Christopher D ^a   Blaisdell, John M ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared measurements; Inverse problems; Iterative methods; Linear approximation; Matrices; Microwave measurements; Moisture measurements; Remote sensing; Satellites; Temperature measurement

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; WEATHER FORECASTING; DATA ACQUISITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; LINEAR APPROXIMATION; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE MEASUREMENTS;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0038274153     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808236     Document Type: Article

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