Minimum local emissivity variance retrieval of cloud altitude and effective spectral emissivity - Simulation and initial verification

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 795-809

  Huang, Hung Lung ^a   Smith, William L ^b   Li, Jun ^a   Antonelli, Paolo ^a   Wu, XiangQian ^c   Knuteson, Robert O ^a   Huang, Bormin ^a   Osborne, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; METEOROLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

CLOUD EMISSIVITY; MINIMUM LOCAL EMISSIVITY VARIANCE (MLEV);

CLOUDS;

CLOUD; EMISSIVITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 3042730550     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2090.1     Document Type: Article

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