Aerosol impact and correction on temperature profile retrieval from MODIS

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Zhang, Jie ^a,b   Zhang, Qiang ^a,b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; ASTROPHYSICS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERICS; BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRAG REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOPHYSICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; METEOROLOGY; RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; SPACE OPTICS; SPECTROMETERS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TROPOSPHERE;

AEROS OL EFFECT; AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTH; ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRO-RADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERROR; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SPECTRAL INFORMATIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILING; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOL; AIR TEMPERATURE; BOUNDARY LAYER; INFRARED IMAGERY; MODIS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE PROFILE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GOBI DESERT;

EID: 53849138064     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL034419     Document Type: Article

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