Surface emissivity impact on temperature and moisture soundings from hyperspectral infrared radiance measurements

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1225-1235

  Yao, Zhigang ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Li, Jinlong ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface; Radiance; Remote sensing; Soundings; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AIRS RADIANCE; ANGLE DEPENDENCE; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; DATA SETS; ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS; EMISSIVITY RETRIEVAL; EMISSIVITY SPECTRA; HYPERSPECTRAL; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INFRARED RADIANCES; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MOISTURE PROFILES; MOISTURE SOUNDINGS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; RADIANCE; RADIANCE MEASUREMENT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL OF ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; RETRIEVAL PROCESS; SOUNDINGS; SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SURFACE PARAMETER;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; EXPERIMENTS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; EMISSIVITY; INFRARED RADIATION; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RADIANCE; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79960233970     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2587.1     Document Type: Article

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