On the consistency of CERES longwave flux and AIRS temperature and humidity profiles

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 116, Issue 17, 2011, Pages

  Sun, Wenbo ^a,b   Lin, Bing ^b   Hu, Yongxiang ^b   Lukashin, Constantine ^b   Kato, Seiji ^b   Liu, Zhaoyan ^c  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERICS; CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

A-TRAIN; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; BIAS ERROR; CALIPSO; CLOUD-AEROSOL LIDAR AND INFRARED PATHFINDER SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; EARTH RADIATION; HUMIDITY PROFILE; LONG WAVES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SUBTROPICAL AREA; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE; THIN CIRRUS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRS; CALIPSO; CIRRUS; CLEAR SKY; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMIDITY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; MODIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUBTROPICAL REGION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPICAL REGION;

EID: 80052531697     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016153     Document Type: Article

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