Validation of the community radiative transfer model

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1050-1064

  Ding, Shouguo ^a   Yang, Ping ^a   Weng, Fuzhong ^b   Liu, Quanhua ^b,c   Han, Yong ^b   van Delst, Paul ^b   Li, Jun ^d   Baum, Bryan ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS; CRTM; DISORT; ECMWF; IASI; LBLRTM; Validation

Indexed keywords

CRTM; DISORT; ECMWF; IASI; LBLRTM; VALIDATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; DATA PROCESSING; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79951513726     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2010.11.009     Document Type: Article

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