Assessing the Regional/Diurnal Bias between Satellite Retrievals and GEOS-5/MERRA Model Estimates of Land Surface Temperature

Mr. Benjamin R Scarino, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, William L Smith Jr, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States, Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States and Kristopher M Bedka, NASA Langley Research Center, Climate Science Branch, Hampton, VA, United States