Surface air temperature and humidity from intersatellite-calibrated HIRS measurements in high latitudes

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3-13

  Shi, Lei ^a   Peng, Ge ^a   Bates, John J ^a  

^a NOAA NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Humidity; Surface temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; DRIFTING BUOYS; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH LATITUDES; IN-SITU DATA; OCEAN SURFACES; OPEN OCEAN; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RMS ERRORS; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SPECIFIC HUMIDITY; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ERRORS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; INFRARED RADIATION; LATITUDE; NADIR; OPEN OCEAN; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84857011998     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00024.1     Document Type: Article

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