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instrument calibration for climate change. NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Publication, p 144
Cao C, Weinreb M, Sullivan J (2001) Solar contamination effects on the infrared channels of the
AVHRR. J Geophys Res 106(D24):33463–33469
Cao C, Weinreb M, Xu H (2004) Predicting simultaneous nadir overpasses among polar-orbiting
meteorological satellites for the inter-satellite calibration of radiometers. J Atmos Ocean
Technol 21:537–542
Cao C, Ciren P, Goldberg M, Weng F, Zou C (2005a) Simultaneous nadir overpasses for NOAA-6
to NOAA-17 satellites from 1980 to 2003 for the inter-satellite calibration of radiometers.
NOAA technical report NESDIS 118, p 74
Cao C, Xu H, Sullivan J, McMillin L, Ciren P, Hou Y (2005b) Inter-satellite radiance biases for the
High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounders (HIRS) on board NOAA-15,-16 and -17 from
simultaneous nadir observations. J Atmos Ocean Technol 22:381–395
Cao C, Xiong X, Wu A, Wu X (2008a) Assessing the consistency of AVHRR and MODIS L1B
reflectance for generating fundamental climate data records. J Geophys Res 113:D09114.
doi:10.1029/2007JD009363, 10 pp
Cao C, Goldberg M, Wang L (2008b) Spectral bias estimation of historical HIRS using IASI
observations for improved fundamental climate data records. J Atmos Ocean Technol
26:1378–1387
Cao C, Vermote E, Xiong X (2009) Using AVHRR lunar observations for NDVI long-term
climate change detection. J Geophys Res 114:D20105. doi:10.1029/2009JD012179, 9 pp
Cao C, Uprety S, Xiong X, Wu A, Jing P, Smith D, Chander G, Fox N, Ungar S (2010)
Establishing the Antarctic Dome C community reference standard site towards consistent
measurements from earth observation satellites. Can J Remote Sens 36:498–513
Christy JR, Spencer RW, Lobel ES (1998) Analysis of the merging procedure for the MSU daily
temperature time series. J Climate 11:2016–2041
Green RO, Pavri B (2002) AVIRIS in-flight calibration experiment results for 2001. In: Green RO
(ed) Proceedings of the 11th JPL airborne earth science workshop, JPL Pub. 03-4, Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, pp 125–137
Gunshor MM, Schmit TJ, Menzel WP (2004) Inter-calibration of the infrared window and water
vapor channels on operational geostationary environmental satellites using a single polarorbiting satellite. J Atmos Ocean Technol 21:61–68
Heidinger A, Cao C, Sullivan J (2002) Using MODIS to calibrate AVHRR reflectance channels.
J Geophys Res 107(D23):4702. doi:10.1029/2001JD002035, 10 pp
Iacovazzi R, Cao C (2007) Quantifying EOS-aqua and NOAA POES AMSU – a brightness
temperature biases for weather and climate applications utilizing the SNO method. J Atmos
Ocean Technol. doi:10.1175/JTECH2095.1
Jaross G, Krueger AJ, Flittner D (1998) Multispectral calibration of remote-sensing instruments
over Antarctica. Metrologia 35:625–629
Kieffer HH (1997) Photometric stability of the lunar surface. Icarus 130(2):323–327
Masonis SJ, Warren SG (2001) Gain of the AVHRR visible channel as tracked using bidirectional
reflectance of Antarctica and Greenland snow. Int J Remote Sens 22(8):1495–1520
Shi L, Bates J, Cao C (2008) Scene temperature dependent HIRS inter-satellite biases. J Atmos
Ocean Technol 25:2219–2229
Tobin DC, Revercomb HE, Moeller CC, Pagano T (2006) Use of atmospheric infrared sounder highspectral resolution spectra to assess the calibration of moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer on EOS aqua. J Geophys Res 111:D09S05. doi:10.1029/2005JD006095, 15 pp
Trishchenko AP, Fedosejevs G, Li Z, Cihlar J (2002) Trends and uncertainties in thermal calibration of AVHRR radiometers onboard NOAA-9 to NOAA-16. J Geophys Res 107:4778.
doi:10.1029/2002JD002353, 13 pp
28
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