Retrieval of columnar water vapor using multispectral radiometer measurements over northern China

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Liu, Chaoshun ^a,b   Li, Yun ^c   Gao, Wei ^a,b,d   Shi, Runhe ^a,b   Bai, Kaixu ^a,b  

^a East China Normal University   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

AErosol RObotic NETwork; columnar water vapor; multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer; retrieval, moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; INFRARED DEVICES; RADIOMETERS; ROBOTICS; SPECTROMETERS;

AEROSOL ROBOTIC NETWORKS; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSIONS; COLUMNAR WATER VAPORS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MULTIFILTER ROTATING SHADOWBAND RADIOMETERS; RETRIEVAL , MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; TOTAL PRECIPITABLE WATER;

WATER VAPOR;

EID: 80054064537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3647483     Document Type: Article

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