Intercomparison of cloud top altitudes as derived using GOME and ATSR-2 instruments onboard ERS-2

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 186-193

  Rozanov, V V ^a   Kokhanovsky, A A ^a,b   Loyola, D ^c   Siddans, R ^d   Latter, B ^d   Stevens, A ^d   Burrows, J P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clouds; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Thermal imagery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE PLATFORMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER; STANDARD DEVIATION; THERMAL IMAGERY;

CLOUDS;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERE; CLOUD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 33646150449     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.02.009     Document Type: Article

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