Improvement of surface longwave flux algorithms used in Ceres processing

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1579-1589

  Gupta, Shashi K ^a   Kratz, David P ^b   Stackhouse Jr , Paul W ^b   Wilber, Anne C ^a   Zhang, Taiping ^a   Sothcott, Victor E ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; LONG WAVES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; POSITIVE BIAS; VALIDATION RESULTS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ARID REGIONS;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARID REGION; CORRECTION; DETECTION METHOD; EOS; ESTIMATION METHOD; METEOROLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD;

CERES;

EID: 77957726963     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2463.1     Document Type: Article

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