The intercomparison of cloud parameters derived using multiple satellite instruments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 195-200

  Kokhanovsky, Alexander A ^a   Nauss, Thomas ^b   Schreier, Mathias ^a   Von Hoyningen Huene, Wolfgang ^a   Burrows, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radiative transfer; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHARTOGRAPHY; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS (COT); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER;

CLOUDS;

EID: 33846203302     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.885019     Document Type: Article

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