Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer: Retrieval method and error analysis

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1297-1306

  Bowman, Kevin W ^a   Rodgers, Clive D ^b   Kulawik, Susan Sund ^a,h   Worden, John ^a   Sarkissian, Edwin ^a   Osterman, Greg ^a   Steck, Tilman ^c   Lou, Ming ^a   Eldering, Annmarie ^a   Shephard, Mark ^d,h   Worden, Helen ^a,h   Lampel, Michael ^e   Clough, Shepard ^d,h,i,j   Brown, Pat ^f   Rinsland, Curtis ^g   Gunson, Michael ^a   Beer, Reinhard ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^e RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^f Hartford Financial Services Group   (United States)

^g NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer ^*

ⁱ Science Team

^j International Radiation Commission

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Author keywords

Atmospheres; Constituents; Inverse methods; Remote sounding; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERES; CONSTITUENTS; INVERSE METHODS; REMOTE SOUNDING; TROPOSPHERIC EMISSION SPECTROMETER (TES);

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 33646428696     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.871234     Document Type: Article

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