Achieving climate change absolute accuracy in orbit

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1519-1539

  Wielicki, Bruce A ^a   Young, D F ^a   Mlynczak, M G ^a   Thome, K J ^b   Leroy, S ^c   Corliss, J ^a   Anderson, J G ^c   Ao, C O ^d   Bantges, R ^e   Best, F ^f   Bowman, K ^d   Brindley, H ^e   Butler, J J ^b   Collins, W ^g   Dykema, J A ^c   Doelling, D R ^a   Feldman, D R ^g   Fox, N ^h   Huang, X ⁱ   Holz, R ^f   Huang, Y ^j   Jin, Z ^k   Jennings, D ^b   Johnson, D G ^a   Jucks, K ^l   Kato, S ^a   Kirk Davidoff, D B ^m   Knuteson, R ^f   Kopp, G ⁿ   Kratz, D P ^a   Liu, X ^a   Lukashin, C ^a   Mannucci, A J ^d   Phojanamongkolkij, N ^a   Pilewskie, P ⁿ   Ramaswamy, V ^o   Revercomb, H ^f   Rice, J ^p   Roberts, Y ⁿ   Roithmayr, C M ^a   Rose, F ^k   Sandford, S ^a   Shirley, E L ^p   Smith Sr , W L ^f   Soden, B ^q   Speth, P W ^a   Sun, W ^k   Taylor, P C ^a   Tobin, D ^f   Xiong, X ^b   more..

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^j MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^k Science Systems and Applications   (United States)

^l NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^o NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; CLIMATE FORCINGS; DECADAL CHANGE; DECISION MAKERS; HIGH CONFIDENCE; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; HIGHLY ACCURATE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

PHYSICAL ADDRESSES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84874885902     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00149.1     Document Type: Article

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