Remote sensing of cirrus cloud optical thickness and effective particle size for the national polar–orbiting operational environmental satellite system visible/infrared imager radiometer suite: Sensitivity to instrument noise and uncertainties in environmental parameters

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 7202-7214

  Ou, Szu Cheng ^a   Takano, Yoshihide ^a   Liou, K N ^a   Higgins, Glenn J ^b   George, Adrian ^c   Slonaker, Richard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT RADIATION; LIGHT REFLECTION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS (COT); SOLAR RETRIEVAL METHODS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0348198156     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.007202     Document Type: Article

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