Retrieval validation during the european aqua thermodynamic experiment

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2007, Pages 203-215

  Zhou, Daniel K ^a   Smith, William L ^b,c   Cuomo, Vincenzo ^d   Taylor, Jonathan P ^e   Barnet, Christopher D ^f   Girolamo, Paolo Di ^g   Pappalardo, Gelsomina ^d   Larar, Allen M ^a   Liu, Xu ^a   Newman, Stuart M ^e   Lee, Clare ^e   Mango, Stephen A ^h  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^e MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^f OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^h NPOESS Integrated Program Office   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS; EAQUATE; NAST I; NPOESS; Retrieval; Validation

Indexed keywords

EAQUATE; NAST-I; NPOESS; RETRIEVAL; VALIDATION;

AIR; AIRCRAFT INSTRUMENTS; DATA PROCESSING; EXPERIMENTS; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOUNDING APPARATUS; THERMODYNAMICS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 57749109773     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.181     Document Type: Article

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