Absolute calibration of ATMS upper level temperature sounding channels using GPS RO Observations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1397-1406

  Zou, Xiaolei ^a,b   Lin, Lin ^c,d   Weng, Fuzhong ^e  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d Earth Resources Technology Inc   (United States)

^e OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS); Calibration; Satellite Applications; Suomi National Polar orbiting Partnership (SNPP)

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY MICROWAVE SOUNDERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COMMUNITY RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODELS; CONSTELLATION OBSERVING SYSTEM FOR METEOROLOGY , IONOSPHERE , AND CLIMATES; POLAR-ORBITING; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE DATA ASSIMILATION; UPPER LEVEL TEMPERATURES;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; CALIBRATION; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; IONOSPHERE; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; SATELLITE ANTENNAS; SATELLITES; TEMPERATURE;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890986978     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2250981     Document Type: Article

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