Cloudy sounding and cloud-top height retrieval from AIRS alone single field-of-view radiance measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Weisz, Elisabeth ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Li, Jinlong ^a   Zhou, Daniel K ^b   Huang, Hung Lung ^a   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^c   Yang, Ping ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OZONE LAYER; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); CLOUD-TOP HEIGHT RETRIEVAL; CLOUDY SOUNDING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER (MODIS); RADIANCE MEASUREMENTS;

CLOUDS;

CLEAR SKY; CLOUD; EOS; MODIS; RADIOSONDE; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 35948983483     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030219     Document Type: Article

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