Use of high-resolution measurements for the retrieval of temperature and gas-concentration profiles from outgoing infrared spectra in the presence of cirrus clouds

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2155-2165

  Huang, Xianglei L ^a   Yung, Yuk L ^a   Margolis, Jack S ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Remote Sensing Analysis Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL DEPTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0041381197     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.002155     Document Type: Article

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