On the effect of dust aerosols on AIRS and IASI operational level 2 products

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Maddy, E S ^a   Desouza Machado, S G ^b   Nalli, N R ^c   Barnet, C D ^d   L Strow, L ^b   Wolf, W W ^d   Xie, H ^c   Gambacorta, A ^a   King, T S ^a   Joseph, E ^e   Morris, V ^e   Hannon, S E ^b   Schou, P ^b  

^a Riverside Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c IM Systems Group   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^e HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUST;

ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENA; CLOUD-CLEARED RADIANCE; DUST AEROSOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETER; GLOBAL SCALE; IN-SITU; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SPURIOUS OSCILLATIONS; SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL;

INFRARED DEVICES;

AIRS; DATA ACQUISITION; DUST; ERROR ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; TROPOSPHERE; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AEROSOL; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE MODELING; CORRELATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; OSCILLATION;

EID: 84861657199     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052070     Document Type: Article

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