Articles | Volume 6, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-2049-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-2049-2013
Development and technical paper
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26 Nov 2013
Development and technical paper |  | 26 Nov 2013

Multi-sensor cloud retrieval simulator and remote sensing from model parameters – Part 1: Synthetic sensor radiance formulation

G. Wind, A. M. da Silva, P. M. Norris, and S. Platnick

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