The Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder (EOS MLS) on the aura satellite

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1075-1092

  Waters, Joe W ^a   Froidevaux, Lucien ^a   Harwood, Robert S ^b   Jarnot, Robert F ^a   Pickett, Herbert M ^a   Read, William G ^a   Siegel, Peter H ^a   Cofield, Richard E ^a   Filipiak, Mark J ^b   Flower, Dennis A ^a   Holden, James R ^a   Lau, Gary K ^a   Livesey, Nathaniel J ^a   Manney, Gloria L ^a   Pumphrey, Hugh C ^b   Santee, Michelle L ^a   Wu, Dong L ^a   Cuddy, David T ^a   Lay, Richard R ^a   Loo, Mario S ^a   Perun, Vincent S ^a   Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Stek, Paul C ^a   Thurstans, Robert P ^a   Boyles, Mark A ^a   Chandra, Kumar M ^a   Chavez, Marco C ^a   Chen, Gun Shing ^a   Chudasama, Bharat V ^a   Dodge, Randy ^a   Fuller, Ryan A ^a   Girard, Michael A ^a   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Jiang, Yibo ^a   Knosp, Brian W ^a   Labelle, Remi C ^a   Lam, Jonathan C ^a   Lee, Karen A ^a   Miller, Dominick ^a   Oswald, John E ^a   Patel, Navnit C ^a   Pukala, David M ^a   Quintero, Ofelia ^a   Scaff, David M ^a   Van Snyder, W ^a   Tope, Michael C ^a   Wagner, Paul A ^a   Walch, Marc J ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Microwave; Remote sensing; Stratosphere; Submillimeter wave

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (EOS MLS); STRATOSPHERES; STRATOSPHERIC OZONE CHEMISTRY; SUBMILLIMETER WAVE;

CALIBRATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 33644620380     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.873771     Document Type: Article

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