Atmospheric profile retrieval with AIRS data and validation at the ARM CART site

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 647-654

  Wu, Xuebao ^a,c   Li, Jun ^b   Zhang, Wenjian ^c   Wang, Fang ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

AIRS; And ARM CART site; Atmospheric profile; Physical retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 26644475421     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918708     Document Type: Article

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