Monitoring satellite radiance biases using NWP models

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1124-1138

  Saunders, Roger W ^a   Blackmore, Thomas A ^a   Candy, Brett ^a   Francis, Peter N ^a   Hewison, Tim J ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b EUMETSAT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calibration; numerical weather prediction (NWP) models; remote sensing; satellites

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNITS; ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDERS; DOUBLE-DIFFERENCE TECHNIQUE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; IMAGING RADIOMETERS; INFRARED ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING INTERFEROMETERS; INTERCALIBRATION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; NWP MODEL; POLAR-ORBITING; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS; RADIOMETRIC NOISE; SATELLITE RADIOMETER; SCAN ANGLE; SPACE-BASED; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRONG DEPENDENCES; TEMPORAL STABILITY; TIME OF DAY;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CALIBRATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTS; INTERFEROMETERS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

SATELLITES;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; AMSU; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE PREDICTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NADIR; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEVIRI;

EID: 84874657431     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2229283     Document Type: Article

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