EOS MLS forward model polarized radiative transfer for zeeman-split oxygen lines

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1182-1191

  Schwartz, Michael J ^a   Read, William G ^a,b   Van Snyder, W ^a,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA Earth Observing System Microwave Limb Sounder

^c Jet Propulsion Laboratory ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Earth Observing System (EOS) Aura; Forward model; Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS); Zeeman

Indexed keywords

EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS) AURA; FORWARD MODEL; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER (MLS); ZEEMAN;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

EID: 33646400334     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.862267     Document Type: Article

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