Identifying cloud-uncontaminated AIRS spectra from cloudy FOV based on cloud-top pressure and weighting functions

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2278-2294

  Carrier, Matthew ^a   Zou, X ^a   Lapenta, William M ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECAST;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; INFRARED IMAGING;

PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; MODIS; PIXEL;

EID: 34447327205     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR3384.1     Document Type: Article

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