Technical Note: 30 years of HIRS data of upper tropospheric humidity

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 7533-7541

  Gierens, K ^a   Eleftheratos, K ^b   Shi, L ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; HUMIDITY; METOP; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; TROPOSPHERE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 84905044159     PISSN: 16807316     EISSN: 16807324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-7533-2014     Document Type: Article

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