The Joint Airborne IASI Validation Experiment: An evaluation of instrument and algorithms

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1372-1390

  Newman, Stuart M ^a   Larar, Allen M ^b   Smith, William L ^c,d   Ptashnik, Igor V ^e   Jones, Roderic L ^f   Mead, Mohammed I ^f   Revercomb, Henry ^d   Tobin, David C ^d   Taylor, Joe K ^d   Taylor, Jonathan P ^a  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c HAMPTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e V E ZUEV INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interferometry; Radiative transfer; Remote sensing; Spectroscopy; Water vapor continuum

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CASE-STUDIES; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INTENSIVE MEASUREMENTS; LINE PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; WATER VAPOR CONTINUUMS;

WATER VAPOR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERFEROMETER; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84862812885     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.02.030     Document Type: Article

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