First results from the OMI rotational raman scattering cloud pressure algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1272-1281

  Joiner, Joanna ^a,c,d   Vasilkov, Alexander P ^b,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c EOS Aura Mission ^*

^d American Meteorological Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Raman; Retrieval; Scattering

Indexed keywords

MODERATE-RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); RAMAN; RETRIEVAL; ROTATIONAL RAMAN SCATTERING (RRS);

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; CLOUDS; OZONE; PHOTONS; PRESSURE EFFECTS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 33646423870     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.861385     Document Type: Article

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