Early validation analyses of atmospheric profiles from EOS MLS on the Aura satellite

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1106-1121

  Froidevaux, Lucien ^a,i,j,k   Livesey, Nathaniel J ^a   Read, William G ^a   Jiang, Yibo B ^a   Jimenez, Carlos ^b   Filipiak, Mark J ^b   Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Santee, Michelle L ^a   Pumphrey, Hugh C ^b   Jiang, Jonathan H ^a   Wu, Dong L ^a   Manney, Gloria L ^h   Drouin, Brian J ^a   Waters, Joe W ^a   Fetzer, Eric J ^a   Bernath, Peter F ^c   Boone, Chris D ^c   Walker, Kaley A ^c   Jucks, Kenneth W ^d   Toon, Geoffrey C ^a   Margitan, James J ^a   Sen, Bhaswar ^a   Webster, Christopher R ^a   Christensen, Lance E ^a   Elkins, James W ^e   Atlas, Elliot ^f   Lueb, Richard A ^g   Hendershot, Roger ^g   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^e EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^h NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ Division of Earth and Space Sciences   (United States)

^j EOS MLS ^*  (United States)

^k Aura Validation Working Group   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Atmospheric retrievals; Data validation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVALS; DATA VALIDATION; METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS; SYSTEMATIC DIFFERENCES;

ATMOSPHERICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATABASE SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL BALLOONS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

EID: 33644620979     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.864366     Document Type: Article

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