Overview of the EOS aura mission

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1066-1072

  Schoeberl, Mark R ^a,g   Douglass, Anne R ^a,f,h,i,j   Hilsenrath, Ernest ^a,k,l   Bhartia, Pawan K ^a,j   Beer, Reinhard ^b   Waters, Joe William ^b,m,n   Gunson, Michael R ^b   Froidevaux, Lucien ^b,j,o,p   Gille, John C ^c,j,p,q   Barnett, John J ^d   Levelt, Pieternel F ^e,j   DeCola, Phil ^f,j,r  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE KNMI   (Netherlands)

^f NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^g Earth Sciences Directorate   (United States)

^h Steering Committee for NASA's Global Modeling Initiative

ⁱ American Meteorology Society   (United States)

^j Steering Committee for NASA's Global Modeling Initiative ^*

^k Atmospheric Chemistry Subgroup   (Turkey)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^m JPL Science Division

ⁿ Instrument and Science Data Systems Division

^o JPL   (United States)

^p Aura Validation Working Group

^q NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^r US Government's Climate Change Science Program Subgroup on Atmospheric Composition   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atmospheric composition; Aura; Earth Observing Sytem (EOS); Remote sensing; Satellites

Indexed keywords

AURA; EARTH OBSERVING SYTEM (EOS); MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETER (TES);

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES;

EID: 33646345248     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.861950     Document Type: Article

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