Assessment of intercalibration methods for satellite microwave humidity sounders

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 4906-4918

  John, Viju O ^a   Allan, Richard P ^b   Bell, William ^a   Buehler, Stefan A ^c   Kottayil, Ajil ^c  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

humidity; inter calibration; microwave

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CALIBRATION; MICROWAVES; TROPICS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DIURNAL VARIATION; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; INTERCALIBRATION; NATURAL TARGETS; SIGNIFICANT SURFACES; TROPICAL OCEAN;

TEMPERATURE;

AMSU; CLOUD; DATA SET; HUMIDITY; NADIR; SATELLITE;

EID: 84881189717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50358     Document Type: Article

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