An extended and improved special sensor microwave imager (ssm/i) period of record

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 424-436

  Semunegus, Hilawe ^a   Berg, Wesley ^b   Bates, John J ^a   Knapp, Kenneth R ^a   Kummerow, Christian ^b  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; DATA MATURITY; DATA SETS; DEFENSE METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS; GEOLOCATIONS; INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RADIANCE VALUES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SENSOR DATA RECORDS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE VALUES; THRESHOLD PARAMETERS; Z-SCORES;

CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANOMALY; CLIMATOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SSM-I;

EID: 77953516299     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JAMC2314.1     Document Type: Article

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