Vertical resolution estimates in version 5 of AIRS operational retrievals

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2375-2384

  Maddy, Eric S ^a   Barnet, Christopher D ^b  

^a QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared measurements; Inverse problems; Matrices; Remote sensing; Satellites

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERICS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MOISTURE; REAL TIME CONTROL; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDER; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATRICES; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVALS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; VERTICAL RESOLUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 47749139625     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917498     Document Type: Article

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