The impact of ozone lines on AMSU-B radiances

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  John, V O ^a   Buehler, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

1655 Global Change: Water cycles (1836); 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing; 3394 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Instruments and techniques

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIATION; THERMAL EFFECTS; LUMINANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B (AMSU-B) RADIANCES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; OZONE LINES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; OZONE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B RADIANCES; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; LINE-BY-LINE RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; OZONE LINES;

EID: 13244273437     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021214     Document Type: Article

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