Calculating Antarctic stratospheric temperature from Special Sensor Microwave Imager and Sounder

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Liu, Quanhua ^a,d   Kazumori, Masahiro ^b   Han, Yong ^a,c   Weng, Fuzhong ^c  

^a Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; IMAGE SENSORS; INTERPOLATION; LINEAR REGRESSION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGER; SOUNDER; STRATOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SSM-I; STRATOSPHERE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34948820688     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030646     Document Type: Article

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