IASI temperature and water vapor retrievals - Error assessment and validation

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6453-6458

  Pougatchev, N ^a   August, T ^b   Calbet, X ^b   Hultberg, T ^b   Oduleye, O ^b   Schlussel P ^b   Stiller, B ^c   St Germain, K ^d   Bingham, G ^a  

^a Space Dynamics Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^c DEUTSCHER WETTERDIENST   (Germany)

^d Silver Spring   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOSONDE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VERTICAL PROFILE; WATER VAPOR;

BRANDENBURG; GERMANY; LINDENBERG;

EID: 71149117388     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-6453-2009     Document Type: Article

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