Understanding thermal drift in liquid nitrogen loads used for radiometric calibration in the field

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 647-655

  Paine, Scott N ^a   Turner, David D ^b   Küchler, Nils ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BOILING POINT; CALIBRATION; RADIOMETERS;

BOILING-POINT TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION ERROR; INFRARED WAVELENGTHS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE; RADIOMETER CALIBRATION; RADIOMETRIC CALIBRATIONS;

LIQUID NITROGEN;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; NITROGEN; RADIOMETER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WAVELENGTH; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84897002302     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: 15200426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00171.1     Document Type: Article

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