Multi-sensor cloud retrieval simulator and remote sensing from model parameters - Part 1: Synthetic sensor radiance formulation

Geoscientific Model Development

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2049-2062

  Wind, G ^a,b   Da Silva, A M ^a   Norris, P M ^a,c   Platnick, S ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DATA SET; EOS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR;

EID: 84890513615     PISSN: 1991959X     EISSN: 19919603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-6-2049-2013     Document Type: Article

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