CLARREO: Cornerstone of the climate observing system measuring decadal change through accurate emitted infrared and reflected solar spectra and radio occultation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7826, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sandford, Stephen P ^a   Young, David F ^a   Corliss, James M ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Gazarik, Michael J ^a   Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Little, Alan D ^a   Jones, Craig D ^a   Speth, Paul W ^a   Shick, Don E ^a   Brown, Kevin E ^a   Thome, Kurtis J ^b   Hair, Jason H ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

accuracy; climate; decadal scale; Earth observation; global scale; natural variability; SI traceable; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CLIMATE; DECADAL SCALE; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL SCALE; NATURAL VARIABILITY; SI-TRACEABLE; UNCERTAINTY;

CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SENSORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 78649603745     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.866353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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