Measure and exploitation of multisensor and multiwavelength synergy for remote sensing: 2. Application to the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and water vapor from MetOp

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Aires, Filipe ^a,b,c   Paul, Maxime ^a,b   Prigent, Catherine ^b   Rommen, Böjrn ^d   Bouvet, Marc ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c Estellus ^*  (France)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSTRUMENTS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; WATER CONTENT; WATER VAPOR;

ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; CLASSICAL INFORMATION; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; INVERSION ALGORITHM; K-NEAREST NEIGHBORS; MEASUREMENT TOOLS; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; MULTI SENSOR; MULTIWAVELENGTH; NON-LINEAR METHODS; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL SYNERGIES; PRIORI INFORMATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; REALISTIC POTENTIALS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SKY CONDITION; STATISTICAL RETRIEVAL;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; LINEARITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POTASSIUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; WATER VAPOR; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 79251622007     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JD014702     Document Type: Article

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