A comprehensive radiometric validation protocol for the CERES Earth Radiation Budget climate record sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5151, Issue , 2003, Pages 282-287

  Priestley, K J ^a   Thomas, S ^b   Spence, P L ^b   Szewczyk, Z P ^b   Kizer, E A ^b   Walikainen, D ^b   Al Hajjah, A ^b   Wilson, R S ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua; Calibration; CERES; Stability; Terra; Validation

Indexed keywords

BOLOMETERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; RAIN; SPACECRAFT; THERMISTORS;

AQUA; CERES; TERRA;

SENSORS;

EID: 2342501765     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.507520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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