Community radiative transfer model (CRTM) applications in supporting the suomi national polar-orbiting partnership (snpp) mission validation and verification

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 744-754

  Liu, Quanhua ^a,b   Boukabara, Sid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Joint Center for Satellite and Data Assimilation   (United States)

Author keywords

CRTM; SNPP instruments; Validation and verification

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; CLOUDS AND THE EARTH'S RADIANT ENERGY SYSTEMS; CRTM; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION; VALIDATION AND VERIFICATION; VISIBLE INFRARED IMAGING RADIOMETER SUITES;

INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED IMAGING; INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; RADIOMETRY; SOUNDING APPARATUS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

MICROWAVE SENSORS;

CALIBRATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; INSTRUMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RADIOMETER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVELENGTH; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CHINA;

EID: 84887158997     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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