Spectrally resolved fluxes derived from collocated AIRS and CERES measurements and their application in model evaluation: Clear sky over the tropical oceans

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Huang, Xianglei ^a   Yang, Wenze ^a,b   Loeb, Norman G ^c   Rarnaswamy, V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; TROPICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFRARED RADIATION; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 46449113512     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JD009219     Document Type: Article

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