Use of ceres PAPS observations over the valencia anchor station to validate low spatial resolution remote sensing data and products

12th Conference on Cloud Physics, and 12th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Blázquez, A Velázquez ^a   Alonso, S ^b   Domenech C ^a   Gimeno, J ^a   Sanchez, J Jorge ^c   Labajo, A ^b   Loeb, N G ^d,e   Pino, D ^c,f   Rius, A ^f   Sanchis, A ^a   Smith, G L ^d,g   Szewczyk, Z P ^d,h   Tarruella, R ^c   Torrobella, J ^f   Lopez Baeza, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Spanish Institute for Meteorology ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d NASA Langley Research Centre (LaRC)   (United States)

^e HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUT D ESTUDIS ESPACIALS DE CATALUNYA IEEC   (Spain)

^g National Institute for Aerospace   (United States)

^h SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

BRDF; CERES; Earth Radiation Budget; GERB; Valencia Anchor Station; Validation of low spatial resolution satellite data and products

Indexed keywords

CERES; EARTH RADIATION BUDGET; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VALENCIA;

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

BUDGET CONTROL;

EID: 75149172788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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