Satellite microwave remote sensing of daily land surface air temperature minima and maxima from AMSR-E

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-123

  Jones, Lucas A ^a,b   Ferguson, Craig R ^c   Kimball, John S ^a,b   Zhang, Ke ^a,b   Chan, Steven Tsz K ^d   McDonald, Kyle C ^d   Njoku, Eni G ^d   Wood, Eric F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS AMSU; AMSR E; Meteorology; Microwave radiometry; Temperature; Terrestrial atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LUMINANCE; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EOS; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; LAND SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; EOS; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MONITORING SYSTEM; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRECISION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77649100032     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2041530     Document Type: Article

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