Improved methodology for surface and atmospheric soundings, error estimates, and quality control procedures: The atmospheric infrared sounder science team version-6 retrieval algorithm

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Susskind, Joel ^a   Blaisdell, John M ^a,b   Iredell, Lena ^a,b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

clouds; infrared; meteorology.; remote sensing; satellites

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; CLOUDS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFRARED DEVICES; INFRARED RADIATION; METEOROLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

ATMOSPHERIC INFRARED SOUNDERS; ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDING; DATA AND INFORMATION; MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL PROCEDURES; SPECTRAL EMISSIVITY; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

INFRARED INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 84898653655     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.084994     Document Type: Article

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