Sensitive detection of aerosol effect on simulated IASI spectral radiance

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 122, Issue , 2013, Pages 214-232

  Quan, X ^a   Huang, H L ^b   Zhang, L ^a   Weisz, E ^b   Cao, X ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerosol affected; Atmospheric sounding interferometer; Atmospheric window channel; Brightness temperature difference; Fast radiance transfer model

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL-AFFECTED; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; ATMOSPHERIC WINDOW; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; RADIANCE TRANSFER;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; INTERFEROMETERS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TEMPERATURE;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUST; IASI; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876407277     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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