Efficient use of an improved radiative transfer code to simulate near-global distributions of satellite-measured radiances

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 3460-3471

  Nakajima, Takashi Y ^a   Murakami, Hiroshi ^a   Hori, Masahiro ^a   Nakajima, Teruyuki ^b   Aoki, Teruo ^c   Oishi, Tomohiko ^d   Tanaka, Akihiko ^e  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

SATELLITES;

EID: 0038718003     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.003460     Document Type: Article

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