The CERES calibration strategy of the geostationary visible channels for CERES cloud and flux products

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8153, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Morstad, Daniel L ^a   Doelling, David R ^b   Bhatt, Rajendra ^a   Scarino, Benjamin ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aqua MODIS; CERES; Deep Convective Clouds (DCC); Geostationary; GOES 13; Pseudo Invariant Test Sites; Radiometric Calibration

Indexed keywords

AQUA-MODIS; CERES; DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS; GEOSTATIONARY; GOES-13; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; TEST SITE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLOUDS; EARTH (PLANET); GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INSTRUMENTS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SENSORS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 80054686095     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.894650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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