The global space-based inter-calibration system

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 467-475

  Goldberg, M ^a   Ohring, G ^a   Butler, J ^b   Cao, C ^a   Datla, R ^c   Doelling, D ^d   Gartner V ^e   Hewison, T ^j   Iacovazzi, B ^a   Kim, D ^f   Kurino, T ^g   Lafeuille, J ^h   Minnis, P ^d   Renaut, D ⁱ   Schmetz, J ^j   Tobin, D ^k   Wang, L ^a   Weng, F ^a   Wu, X ^a   Yu, F ^a   Zhang, P ^l   Zhu, T ^a   more..

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^f National Typhoon Center   (South Korea)

^g JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^h WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

ⁱ CNES   (France)

^j EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^l NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; SATELLITES;

COORDINATION GROUP FOR METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM; ON-ORBIT SATELLITES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE SENSORS; WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMS; WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATIONS;

ORBITS;

EID: 79957455500     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010BAMS2967.1     Document Type: Article

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