Detection of atmospheric changes in spatially and temporally averaged infrared spectra observed from space

Journal of Climate

Volumn 24, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6392-6407

  Kato, Seiji ^a   Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Rose, Fred G ^b   Liu, Xu ^a   Taylor, Patrick C ^a   Kratz, David P ^a   Mlynczak, Martin G ^a   Young, David F ^a   Phojanamongkolkij, Nipa ^a   Sun Mack, Sunny ^b   Miller, Walter F ^b   Chen, Yan ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate records

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES; ATMOSPHERIC PROPERTIES; ATMOSPHERIC VARIABILITY; CLIMATE RECORD; CLOUD FRACTION; CLOUD HEIGHTS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; DECADAL CHANGE; INFRARED SPECTRUM; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LINEAR ESTIMATION; LONG WAVES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NONLINEAR CHANGES; PERCENTAGE ERROR; REANALYSIS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SATELLITE INSTRUMENTS; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPECTRAL RADIANCE; SPECTRAL SHAPES; TEMPERATURE HUMIDITY; WATER CLOUDS; WAVE NUMBERS; ZONAL MEANS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROSCOPY;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTION METHOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LONGWAVE RADIATION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 84155179093     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-10-05005.1     Document Type: Article

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