Toward an intercalibrated fundamental climate data record of the SSM/I sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1492-1503

  Sapiano, Mathew R P ^a   Berg, Wesley K ^b   McKague, Darren S ^c   Kummerow, Christian D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate data record; intercalibration; passive microwave remote sensing; special sensor microwave imagers (SSM I)

Indexed keywords

ANGLE-DEPENDENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; ERROR CHARACTERISTICS; INTERCALIBRATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MODEL SIMULATION; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PROFILE DATA; REANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

CALIBRATION;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

AMAZONIA;

EID: 84874649844     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2206601     Document Type: Article

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