The NEMESIS planetary atmosphere radiative transfer and retrieval tool

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 109, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1136-1150

  Irwin, P G J ^a   Teanby, N A ^a   de Kok, R ^a   Fletcher, L N ^a   Howett, C J A ^a   Tsang, C C C ^a   Wilson, C F ^a   Calcutt, S B ^a   Nixon, C A ^b   Parrish, P D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlated k; Radiative transfer; Retrievals

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; DATA REDUCTION; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

NON-LINEAR OPTIMAL ESTIMATOR FOR MULTIVARIATE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SUNLIGHT; THERMAL EMISSION;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION;

GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; MODELING; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 40849111607     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2007.11.006     Document Type: Article

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