Monitoring of IR Clear-Sky Radiances over Oceans for SST (MICROS)

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1228-1242

  Liang, Xingming ^a,b   Ignatov, Alexander ^a  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Model evaluation performance; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD SCREENING; COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; CROSS-PLATFORM; DOUBLE DIFFERENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; INTERCALIBRATION; MODEL EVALUATION; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; REYNOLDS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPACE-BASED; WEB-BASED TOOLS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INFORMATION SERVICES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SATELLITES;

AVHRR; CLEAR SKY; INFRARED RADIATION; MODEL VALIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIANCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 82955240571     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05023.1     Document Type: Article

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