Remote sensing of aerosol and radiation from geostationary satellites

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1882-1893

  Laszlo, Istvan ^a   Ciren, Pubu ^b   Liu, Hongqing ^b   Kondragunta, Shobha ^a   Tarpley, J Dan ^a   Goldberg, Mitchell D ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Geostationary satellite; Shortwave radiation budget

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; PIXELS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ADVANCED BASELINE IMAGER (ABI); AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; SHORTWAVE RADIATION BUDGET; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS;

EID: 42949132805     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.06.047     Document Type: Article

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