Validation of the surface air temperature products retrieved from the atmospheric infrared sounder over China

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1783-1789

  Gao, Wenhua ^a,b   Zhao, Fengsheng ^a   Xu, Youfu ^a,b   Feng, Xuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^b HEFEI INSTITUTES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Atmospheric retrieval; Data validation; Remote sensing; Temperature measurement

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED DEVICES; METEOROLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER (AIRS); ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVAL; DATA VALIDATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 44049107948     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916640     Document Type: Article

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