Improving weather forecasting and providing new data on greenhouse gases

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 911-926

  Chahine, Moustafa T ^a   Pagano, Thomas S ^a   Aumann, Hartmut H ^a   Atlas, Robert ^b,o   Barnet, Christopher ^c   Blaisdell, John ^d   Chen, Luke ^a   Divakarla, Murty ^e   Fetzer, Eric J ^a   Goldberg, Mitch ^c   Gautier, Catherine ^f   Granger, Stephanie ^a   Hannon, Scott ^j   Irion, Frederick W ^a   Kakar, Ramesh ^g   Kalnay, Eugenia ^h   Lambrigtsen, Bjorn H ^a   Lee, Sung Yung ^a   Le Marshall, John ⁱ   Mcmillan, W Wallace ^j   Mcmillin, Larry ^c   Olsen, Edward T ^a   Revercomb, Henry ^k   Rosenkranz, Philip ^l   Smith, William L ^m   Staelin, David ^l   Strow, L Larrabee ^j   Susskind, Joel ^b   Tobin, David ^k   Wolf, Walter ^c   Zhou, Lihang ⁿ   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^e STG Inc   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

ⁱ Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^l MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^o NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA REDUCTION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RESEARCH; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); GLOBAL RETRIEVAL; GREENHOUSE GASES; MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; SOUNDING SYSTEM;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 33747076106     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-87-7-911     Document Type: Article

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