Deriving atmospheric temperature of the tropopause region-upper troposphere by combining information from GPS radio occultation refractivity and high-spectral-resolution infrared radiance measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2300-2310

  Borbas, Eva E ^a   Menzel, W Paul ^b   Weisz, Elisabeth ^a   Devenyi, Dezso ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; ATMOSPHERICS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CLOUDS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TROPICAL ENGINEERING; TROPOSPHERE;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILES; BAYESIAN ESTIMATION METHODS; INFRARED RADIANCES; OPERATIONAL LEVELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROFILE RETRIEVALS; RADIO OCCULTATIONS; SKY CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL REGRESSIONS; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TEMPERATURE RETRIEVALS; TROPOPAUSE REGIONS; UPPER TROPOSPHERES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; GPS; INFRARED IMAGERY; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 57649242746     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC1687.1     Document Type: Article

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