Orbital and Sampling Strategies for Accurately Determining the Diurnal Cycle of Upper-Air Temperature Using a Constellation of Small Satellites
Carl A Mears1, William J Blackwell2, Albin John Gasiewski3, Vincent Vincent Leslie2, Jeffrey R. Piepmeier4, Paul Racette5, Philip W Rosenkranz6 and Benjamin D Santer7, (1)Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA, United States, (2)MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, United States, (3)Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Retired, Washington, DC, United States, (7)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
