Use of a one-dimensional variational retrieval to diagnose estimates of infrared and microwave surface emissivity over land for ATOVS sounding instruments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 393-402

  Ruston, Benjamain ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b   Yan, Banghua ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit module A (AMSU A); Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit module B (AMSU B); High resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS) 3; HIRS 4; Infrared; Microwave; Remote sensing; Satellite applications; Surface emissivity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INFRARED RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT MODULE A (AMSU-A); SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 38349189475     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.910219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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