Preliminary assessment of the Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI) measurement onboard Himawari-8 geostationary satellite

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 637-646

  Da, Cheng ^a  

^a University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; ORBITS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ATMOSPHERIC ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; GEOSYNCHRONOUS ORBITS; INFRARED MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; THERMAL INFRARED BANDS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLEAR SKY; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; LONGWAVE RADIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; ZENITH ANGLE;

JAPAN;

EID: 84938308538     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1066522     Document Type: Article

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