Far infrared remote sensing of cirrus cloud properties

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3220, Issue , 1997, Pages 390-398

  Nolt, Ira G ^a   Ade, Peter A R ^b   Carli, Bruno ^c   Evans, Frank ^d   Marshall, B Thomas ^e   Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Park, K ^f   Russell, James M ^g  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e GATS INC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^g HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Clouds; Far IR; FTS spectroscopy; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; FAR INFRARED; FAR IR; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROSCOPIES; FTS SPECTROSCOPY; GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ICE PARTICLES; INFRARED ENERGIES; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; LONG TERMS; NET EFFECTS; POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS; RADIANCE SPECTRUMS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACIES; UNDER CONSTRUCTIONS;

AIRCRAFT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; PARTICLE SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS; SUN;

CLOUDS;

EID: 1942417505     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.301162     Document Type: Conference Paper

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