IASI on Metop-A: Operational Level 2 retrievals after five years in orbit

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1340-1371

  August, Thomas ^a   Klaes, Dieter ^a   Schlüssel, Peter ^a   Hultberg, Tim ^a   Crapeau, Marc ^a   Arriaga, Arlindo ^a   O'Carroll, Anne ^a   Coppens, Dorothée ^a   Munro, Rose ^a   Calbet, Xavier ^a  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hyperspectral infrared sounding; IASI; Metop; Operational retrievals

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL FACILITIES; CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD PROPERTIES; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; HYPERSPECTRAL INFRARED SOUNDINGS; IASI; IN-ORBIT; METOP; METOP-A; NEAR-REAL TIME; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVALS; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE EMISSIVITY; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; TRACE-GASES; UPPER TROPOSPHERE; VALIDATION STUDY; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON MONOXIDE;

OZONE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON MONOXIDE; CLOUD; HUMIDITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; OZONE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TRACE GAS; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84860918549     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.02.028     Document Type: Article

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