Formulation and validation of simulated data for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 314-329

  Fishbein, Evan ^a   Farmer, C B ^a   Granger, S L ^a   Gregorich, David T ^a   Gunson, Michael R ^a   Hannon, Scott E ^b   Hofstadter, Mark D ^a   Lee, Sung Yung ^a   Leroy, S S ^a   Strow, L Larrabee ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm development; Atmospheric retrieval; Cloud scene modeling; Data simulation; High Resolution Infrared Sounder (HIRS); Satellite remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0038274154     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.808325     Document Type: Article

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