An assessment of the FY-3A microwave temperature sounder using the NCEP numerical weather prediction model

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 4860-4874

  Wang, Xiang ^a   Zou, Xiaolei ^b   Weng, Fuzhong ^c   You, Ran ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

FengYun 3A (FY 3A); frequency shift; MicroWave Temperature Sounder (MWTS)

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOUNDING APPARATUS; TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CENTRAL FREQUENCY; FENGYUN-3A (FY-3A); FOUR-CHANNEL; FREQUENCY SHIFT; METOP-A; MICROWAVE TEMPERATURE; MODEL SIMULATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PASS BANDS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SATELLITE LAUNCHES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

CLIMATE MODELING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION; WEATHER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84870473862     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2200687     Document Type: Article

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