The clear-sky unpolarized forward model for the EOS aura Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS)

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1367-1379

  Read, William G ^a,b   Shippony, Zvi ^a   Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Livesey, Nathaniel J ^a,c   Van Snyder, W ^a,d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder   (United States)

^c Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder   (United States)

^d Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aura; Earth Observing System (EOS); Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS); Radiative transfer; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

AURA; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; SATELLITES; SPECTROSCOPY;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

EID: 33646400056     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.873233     Document Type: Article

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