The pathfinder atmospheres-extended avhrr climate dataset

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 909-922

  Heidinger, Andrew K ^a   Foster, Micha J ^b   Walther, Andi ^b   Zhao, Xuepeng ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BUDGET CONTROL; SATELLITES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLIMATE DATASET; GLOBAL OBSERVATION; LATITUDE LONGITUDE GRID; NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTERS; POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; RADIATION BUDGET; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TROPOSPHERIC CLOUDS;

ORBITS;

EID: 84905687083     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-12-00246.1     Document Type: Article

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