Cirrus cloud top temperatures retrieved from radiances in the national polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system-visible infrared imager radiometer suite 8.55 and 12.0 μm bandpasses

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1316-1325

  Wong, Eric ^a   Hutchison, Keith D ^a,b   Ou, S C ^c   Liou, K N ^c  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFRARED IMAGING; NASA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CIRRUS CLOUD TOP TEMPERATURES (CTT); NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM (NPOESS); VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGER RADIOMETER SUITE (VIIRS);

TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34047120327     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001316     Document Type: Article

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