Multi-year comparison of carbon dioxide from satellite data with ground-based FTS measurements (2003-2011)

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3431-3456

  Miao, Ru ^a,b   Lu, Ning ^b   Yao, Ling ^b   Zhu, Yunqiang ^b   Wang, Juanle ^b   Sun, Jiulin ^b  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Greenhouse gases; Remote sensing retrievals; Validation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; CALIBRATION DATA; FOURIER TRANSFORM SPECTROMETERS; GREENHOUSE GASES OBSERVING SATELLITES; LATITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SCANNING IMAGING ABSORPTION SPECTROMETER FOR ATMOSPHERIC CARTOGRAPHIES (SCIAMACHY); VALIDATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED INSTRUMENTS; SPECTROMETERS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 84881491737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073431     Document Type: Article

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