Spectral balancing of a broadband Earth observing radiometer with co-aligned Short Wave channel to ensure accuracy and stability of broadband daytime Outgoing Long-Wave Radiance measurements: Application to CERES

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6678, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Matthews, Grant ^a,d   Priestley, Kory ^b   Thomas, Susan ^c  

^a Analytical Services and Materials (AS and M)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

CERES; Climate measurement stability; Deep convective clouds; Optical contamination; Spectral balancing; Spectral darkening

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MEASUREMENT STABILITY; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; OPTICAL CONTAMINATION; SPECTRAL BALANCING; SPECTRAL DARKENING;

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CALIBRATION; CLOUDS; CONTAMINATION; RADIOMETERS; STABILITY;

EARTH (PLANET);

EID: 42149152930     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734492     Document Type: Conference Paper

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