A survey and assessment of the capabilities of Cubesats for Earth observation

D Selva, D Krejci - Acta Astronautica, 2012 - Elsevier
In less than a decade, Cubesats have evolved from purely educational tools to a standard
platform for technology demonstration and scientific instrumentation. The use of COTS …

An overview of the AIRS radiative transfer model

LL Strow, SE Hannon… - … on Geoscience and …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The two main elements of the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder radiative transfer algorithm
(AIRS-RTA) are described in this paper: 1) the fast parameterization of the atmospheric …

AIRS/AMSU/HSB on the Aqua mission: Design, science objectives, data products, and processing systems

HH Aumann, MT Chahine, C Gautier… - … on Geoscience and …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU),
and the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB) form an integrated cross-track scanning …

[HTML][HTML] AIRS: Improving weather forecasting and providing new data on greenhouse gases

MT Chahine, TS Pagano, HH Aumann… - Bulletin of the …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and its two companion microwave sounders,
AMSU and HSB were launched into polar orbit onboard the NASA Aqua Satellite in May …

Aqua: An Earth-observing satellite mission to examine water and other climate variables

CL Parkinson - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote …, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aqua is a major satellite mission of the Earth Observing System (EOS), an international
program centered at the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The …

Validation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder temperature and water vapor retrievals with matched radiosonde measurements and forecasts

MG Divakarla, CD Barnet, MD Goldberg… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
An evaluation of the temperature and moisture profile retrievals from the Atmospheric
Infrared Sounder (AIRS) data is performed using more than 2 years of collocated data sets …

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement site atmospheric state best estimates for Atmospheric Infrared Sounder temperature and water vapor retrieval validation

DC Tobin, HE Revercomb, RO Knuteson… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is the first of a new generation of advanced
satellite‐based atmospheric sounders with the capability of obtaining high–vertical …

Absolute accuracy of water vapor measurements from six operational radiosonde types launched during AWEX‐G and implications for AIRS validation

LM Miloshevich, H Vömel, DN Whiteman… - Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A detailed assessment of radiosonde water vapor measurement accuracy throughout the
tropospheric column is needed for assessing the impact of observational error on …

Aura Microwave Limb Sounder upper tropospheric and lower stratospheric H2O and relative humidity with respect to ice validation

WG Read, A Lambert, J Bacmeister… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The validation of version 2.2 (v2. 2) H2O measurements from the Earth Observing System
(EOS) Microwave Limb Sounder (Aura MLS) on the Aura satellite are presented. Results …

A multiparametric approach to study the preparation phase of the 2019 M7. 1 Ridgecrest (California, United States) earthquake

A De Santis, G Cianchini, D Marchetti… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The 2019 M7. 1 Ridgecrest earthquake was the strongest one in the last 20 years in
California (United States). In a multiparametric fashion, we collected data from the …