Technical note: Time-dependent limb-darkening calibration for solar occultation instruments

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Burton, S P ^a,c   Thomason, L W ^b   Zawodny, J M ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 73949101683     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-10-1-2010     Document Type: Article

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