Global temperature estimates in the troposphere and stratosphere: A validation study of COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3 measurements

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 897-908

  Kishore, P ^a   Namboothiri, S P ^b   Jiang, J H ^c   Sivakumar, V ^d,e   Igarashi, K ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; MODEL VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRATOSPHERE; TROPOPAUSE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77950278422     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-9-897-2009     Document Type: Article

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