Intersatellite differences of HIRS longwave channels between NOAA-14 and NOAA-15 and between NOAA-17 and METOP-A

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1414-1424

  Shi, Lei ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infrared sounder; intercalibration; remote sensing; simultaneous nadir overpass observations (SNOs)

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CO-LOCATED; DATA SET; EQUATOR CROSSING TIME; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-CHANNELS; INFRARED SOUNDERS; INTERCALIBRATION; LAPSE RATE; LATITUDINAL VARIATION; LONG WAVES; LOW LATITUDES; LOWER STRATOSPHERE; LOWER TROPOSPHERE; METOP-A; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; SCATTER PLOTS; SIMULTANEOUS NADIR OVERPASS OBSERVATIONS (SNOS); TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; INFRARED RADIATION; OVERPASSES; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TEMPERATURE;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LONGWAVE RADIATION; METOP-A; NOAA SATELLITE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 84874662376     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2216886     Document Type: Article

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