Combining radio occultation refractivities and IR/MW radiances to derive temperature and moisture profiles: A simulation study plus early results using CHAMP and ATOVS

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 21, 2003, Pages

  Borbás, Éva ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^b   Li, Jun ^a   Woolf, Harold M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Office of Research and Applications   (United States)

Author keywords

ATOVS temperature retrieval; GPS radio occultation; Statistical regression

Indexed keywords

GPS; INFRARED IMAGERY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 1342310616     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jd003386     Document Type: Article

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