Technical Note: Evolution, current capabilities, and future advance in satellite nadir viewing ultra-spectral IR sounding of the lower atmosphere

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5563-5574

  Smith Sr , W L ^a   Revercomb, H ^b   Bingham, G ^c   Larar, A ^d   Huang, H ^a   Zhou, D ^d   Li, J ^a   Liu, X ^d   Kireev, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Space Dynamics Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INTERFEROMETRY; NADIR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 75249096725     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-5563-2009     Document Type: Article

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