Transfer of radiometric standards between multiple Low Earth Orbit Climate observing broadband radiometers: Application to CERES

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6677, 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 darkening

Indexed keywords

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

CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); ORBITS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; STANDARDS;

RADIOMETRY;

EID: 42149179995     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734478     Document Type: Conference Paper

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