Evaluation of operational radiances for the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument CO thermal band channels

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Deeter, M N ^a   Emmons, L K ^a   Francis, G L ^a   Edwards, D P ^a   Gille, J C ^a   Warner, J X ^a   Khattatov, B ^a   Ziskin, D ^a   Lamarque, J F ^a   Ho, S P ^a   Yudin, V ^a   Attie, J L ^b   Packman, D ^a   Chen, J ^a   Mao, D ^a   Drummond, James R ^c   Novelli, Paul ^d   Sachse, Glen ^e  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D AÉROLOGIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MOPITT; Radiative transfer model; Validation

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; MODEL VALIDATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 2642529627     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003jd003970     Document Type: Article

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