A bias in the midtropospheric channel warm target factor on the NOAA-9 microwave sounding unit

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 646-652

  Po Chedley, Stephen ^a   Fu, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ATMOSPHERIC LAYERS; GLOBAL TEMPERATURES; HUNTSVILLE; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; POSITIVE BIAS; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA;

CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE;

FACTOR ANALYSIS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; NOAA SATELLITE; RADIOSONDE; STRATOSPHERE; TREND ANALYSIS; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84864511980     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00147.1     Document Type: Article

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