Ground-based temperature and humidity profiling using spectral infrared and microwave observations. Part I: Simulated retrieval performance in clear-sky conditions

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1017-1032

  Löhnert, Ulrich ^a,c   Turner, D D ^b   Crewell, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EMITTED RADIANCE INTERFEROMETERS; DIFFERENT CLIMATIC ZONES; GROUND BASED; HIGH POTENTIAL; HUMIDITY PROFILE; INDEPENDENT GROUNDS; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; MEASUREMENT MODES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; OPTIMAL ESTIMATIONS; PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING; PHYSICAL RETRIEVALS; RETRIEVAL ACCURACY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; RMS ERRORS; SIMULATION STUDIES; SKY CONDITION; SPECTRAL CHANNELS; TROPICAL CLIMATES; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENTS; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLEAR SKY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HUMIDITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 66949138279     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JAMC2060.1     Document Type: Article

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