Ground calibrations of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) tropical rainfall measuring mission spacecraft thermistor bolometers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3117, Issue , 1997, Pages 281-293

  Lee III, Robert B ^a   Smith, G Louis ^a   Barkstrom, Bruce R ^a   Priestley, Kory J ^a   Thomas, Susan ^b   Paden, Jack ^b   Pandey, Dhirendra K ^b   Thornhill, K L ^b   Bolden, William C ^b   Wilson, Robert S ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Climate; Longwave; Radiometry; Shortwave

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BOLOMETERS; CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HOLOGRAMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; LAUNCHING; PUMPS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT; THERMISTORS; WATER VAPOR;

CALIBRATION APPROACHES; CLIMATE; CLIMATE PROCESSES; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES); EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEM (CERES); INTERNATIONAL TEMPERATURE SCALE OF 1990 (ITS-90); LONGWAVE; REFERENCE SOURCES; SHORTWAVE;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 42149146653     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.283813     Document Type: Conference Paper

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