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Publications Citing AMSU-A Data
Browse a list of academic papers that cite data provided by NASA’s Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) instrument.
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| Surface temperatures reveal the patterns of vegetation water stress and | Green, Julia K., Ballantyne, Ashley, Abramoff, Rose, Gentine, Pierre, Makowski, David, Ciais, Philippe | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Biomass, Forests, Grasslands, Alpine/Tundra, Carbon, Cation Exchange Capacity, Organic Matter |
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| A hybrid deep learning network for atmospheric carbon monoxide prediction in the Indian region | Poongadan, Sameer, Lineesh, M. C. | Air Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Geopotential Height, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Ozone, Total Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Tropospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice | ||
| A total precipitable water product and its trend analysis in recent years based on passive microwave radiometers | Ji, Dabin, Shi, Jiancheng, Letu, Husi, Li, Wei, Zhang, Hongxing, Shang, Huazhe | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Cloud Precipitable Water, Surface Winds, Water Temperature, Water Vapor Indices | ||
| Atmospheric Rivers and Associated Precipitation over France and Western Europe: 19802020 Climatology and Case Study | Doiteau, Benjamin, Dournaux, Meredith, Montoux, Nadege, Baray, Jean-Luc | Carbon Monoxide, Tropospheric Ozone, Geopotential Height, Tropopause, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Sulfur Dioxide, Surface Pressure, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Temperature | ||
| GCAP 2.0: a global 3-D chemical-transport model framework for past, present, and future climate scenarios | Murray, Lee T., Leibensperger, Eric M., Orbe, Clara, Mickley, Loretta J., Sulprizio, Melissa | Sulfur Dioxide, Atmospheric Ozone, Nitrogen Dioxide, Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Carbon And Hydrocarbon Compounds, Aerosol Backscatter, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Aerosol Radiance, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Nitrate Particles, Organic Particles, Particulate Matter, Sulfate Particles, Trace Gases/Trace Species, Atmospheric Emitted Radiation, Emissivity, Optical Depth/Thickness, Radiative Flux, Reflectance, Transmittance, Atmospheric Stability, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Asymmetry, Cloud Ceiling, Cloud Frequency, Cloud Emissivity, Cloud Radiative Forcing, Cloud Reflectance, Rain Storms |
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| Sahelian heat wave characterization from observational data sets | Bouniol, D., Guichard, F., Barbier, J., Couvreux, F., Roehrig, R. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Stratospheric Kelvin wave activity as a function of equivalent depth in AIRS and reanalysis datasets | Gahtan, Jennifer, Tian, Baijun | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Sea Level Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Altitude, Ozone Profiles |
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| Temporal evolution of mid-tropospheric CO2 over the Indian Ocean | Peter, R., Kuttippurath, J., Chakraborty, Kunal, Sunanda, N. | Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Absorption, Radiative Forcing | ||
| Comparison of GOME-2 UVA Satellite Data to Ground-Based UVA Measurements | du Preez, D. Jean, Parisi, Alfio V., Millar, Danielle A., Bencherif, Hassan, Wright, Caradee Y. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Amazon rainforest photosynthesis increases in response to atmospheric dryness | Green, J. K., Berry, J., Ciais, P., Zhang, Y., Gentine, P. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Assessing the impacts of two averaging methods on AIRS Level 3 monthly products and multiyear monthly means | Ding, Feng, Savtchenko, Andrey, Hearty, Thomas, Wei, Jennifer, Theobald, Michael, Vollmer, Bruce, Tian, Baijun, Fetzer, Eric | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Precipitation Rate, 24 Hour Maximum Temperature, 24 Hour Minimum Temperature, Surface Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, U/V Wind Components, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds, Heat Flux, Skin Temperature, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Relative Humidity, Ozone Profiles |
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| Carbon dioxide flux in the Java Sea estimated from satellite measurements | Wirasatriya, Anindya, Sugianto, Denny Nugroho, Maslukah, Lilik, Ahkam, Muhammad Faqih, Wulandari, Sri Yulina, Helmi, Muhammad | Absorption, Radiative Forcing, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Salinity | ||
| CLIMCAPS observing capability for temperature, moisture, and trace gases from AIRS/AMSU and CrIS/ATMS | Smith, Nadia, Barnet, Christopher D. | Air Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Geopotential Height, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Ozone, Total Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Tropospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Sea Level Pressure, Pressure Thickness, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Altitude, Ozone Profiles, Vegetation Index, Snow Cover, Emissivity, Vegetation Index, Snow Cover, Land Surface Temperature |
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| Estimating and Removing the Sampling Biases of the AIRS Obs4MIPs V2 Data | Tian, Baijun, Hearty, Thomas | Air Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Geopotential Height, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Ozone, Total Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Tropospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Sea Level Pressure, U/V Wind Components, U/V Wind Components, Potential Vorticity, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Vertical Profiles, Relative Humidity, Specific Humidity, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Altitude, Ozone Profiles |
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| Difference between cloud top height and storm height for heavy rainfall using TRMM measurements | SONG, Hwan-Jin, KIM, Sunyoung, ROH, Soonyoung, LEE, Hyesook | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Quantification of atmospheric ammonia concentrations: A review of its measurement and modeling | Nair, Arshad Arjunan, Yu, Fangqun | Ammonia, Air Quality, Nitrogen Compounds, Clouds, Cloud Microphysics, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Properties, Cloud Top Pressure, Atmospheric Chemistry, Oxygen Compounds, Atmospheric Temperature, Surface Temperature, Ozone Profiles | ||
| The quest for the optimum angular-tilt of terrestrial solar panels or their angle-resolved annual insolation | Schuster, Christian Stefano | Absorption, Radiative Forcing, Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide | ||
| Temperature and pressure variability in mid-latitude low atmosphere and stratosphere-ionosphere coupling | Morozova, A.L., Ribeiro, P., Blanco, J.J., Barlyaeva, T.V. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| A process-based climatological evaluation of AIRS level 3 tropospheric thermodynamics over the high-latitude arctic | Sedlar, Joseph, Tjernstrom, Michael | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Cloud feedbacks in extratropical cyclones: insight from long-term satellite data and high-resolution global simulations | McCoy, Daniel T., Field, Paul R., Elsaesser, Gregory S., Bodas-Salcedo, Alejandro, Kahn, Brian H., Zelinka, Mark D., Kodama, Chihiro, Mauritsen, Thorsten, Vanniere, Benoit, Roberts, Malcolm, Vidale, Pier L., Saint-Martin, David, Voldoire, Aurore, Haarsma, Rein, Hill, Adrian, Shipway, Ben, Wilkinson, Jonathan | Air Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Geopotential Height, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Ozone, Total Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Tropospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Types, Brightness Temperature, Precipitation Rate | ||
| The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Obs4MIPs Version 2 Data Set | Tian, Baijun, Fetzer, Eric J., Manning, Evan M. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Spatial Distribution of Melt Season Cloud Radiative Effects Over | Wang, Wenshan, Zender, Charles S., van As, Dirk, Miller, Nathaniel B. | Air Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Geopotential Height, Methane, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Atmospheric Ozone, Total Precipitable Water, Sea Surface Temperature, Surface Pressure, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Sulfur Dioxide, Tropopause, Tropospheric Ozone, Upper Air Temperature, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Types, Brightness Temperature, Precipitation Rate | ||
| A satellite-based estimate of combustion aerosol cloud microphysical effects over the Arctic Ocean | Zamora, Lauren M., Kahn, Ralph A., Huebert, Klaus B., Stohl, Andreas, Eckhardt, Sabine | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone | ||
| Connections Between a Late Summer Snowstorm Over the Southwestern | Dong, Wenhao, Lin, Yanluan, Wright, Jonathon S., Xie, Yuanyu, Xu, Fanghua, Yang, Kun, Li, Xin, Tian, Lide, Zhao, Xi, Cao, Dianbin | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Cloud Droplet Concentration/Size, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Cloud Types, Precipitation Rate | ||
| Biomass burning and carbon monoxide patterns in Brazil during the extreme drought years of 2005, 2010, and 2015 | Ribeiro, I.O., Andreoli, R.V., Kayano, M.T., Sousa, T.R., Medeiros, A.S., Godoi, R.H.M., Godoi, A.F.L., Duvoisin, S., Martin, S.T., Souza, R.A.F. | Tropopause, Surface Pressure, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide, Geopotential Height, Humidity, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone |
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