Seven years' observation of mid-upper tropospheric methane from atmospheric infrared sounder

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2509-2530

  Xiong, Xiaozhen ^a,b   Barnet, Chris ^b   Maddy, Eric ^a,b   Wei, Jennifer ^a,b   Liu, Xingpin ^a,b   Pagano, Thomas S ^c  

^a Perot Systems Government Services   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AIRS; Methane; Mid upper troposphere; Satellite; Seasonal cycle; Trend

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; DEGREE OF FREEDOM; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYERS; MID-UPPER TROPOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; RMS ERRORS; SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SURFACE EMISSIONS; TREND;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; INFRARED DEVICES; METHANE; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 80051893518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2112509     Document Type: Article

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