Construction of the RSS V3.2 lower-tropospheric temperature dataset from the MSU and AMSU microwave sounders

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1493-1509

  Mears, Carl A ^a   Wentz, Frank J ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; DATA SETS; EXTRATROPICS; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; MICROWAVE SOUNDER; MICROWAVE SOUNDING; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; STRATOSPHERIC EFFECTS; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; WEIGHTING FUNCTIONS; ZENITH ANGLE;

ATMOSPHERICS; MEASUREMENTS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIOSONDES; SATELLITES; SOUNDING APPARATUS; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROWAVE LIMB SOUNDER; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 68849109191     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JTECHA1237.1     Document Type: Article

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