Improvement of the temperature and moisture retrievals in the lower troposphere using AIRS and GPS radio occultation measurements

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1726-1739

  Ho, Shu Peng ^a   Kuo, Ying Hwa ^a,b   Sokolovskiy, Sergey ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIOSONDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER; SUPERREFRACTION; WATER CYCLE;

TROPOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLOUDS; ENERGY BALANCE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; RADIOSONDES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

ALGORITHM; BOUNDARY LAYER; GPS; INFRARED IMAGERY; MOISTURE; RADIOSONDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 35548963280     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH2071.1     Document Type: Article

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