Case-study of a principal-component-based radiative transfer forward model and retrieval algorithm using EAQUATE data

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 133, Issue , 2007, Pages 243-256

  Liu, Xu ^a   Zhou, Daniel K ^a   Larar, Allen ^a   Smith, William L ^b   Mango, Stephen A ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NPOESS Integrated Program Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric profiles; Inversion algorithm; Physical retrievals; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; NANOFLUIDICS; OPTICAL RADAR; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; INVERSION ALGORITHM; PHYSICAL RETRIEVALS; PROJECTION COEFFICIENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 65649139692     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.156     Document Type: Article

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