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Fred A. Best
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 85
Citations - 1768
Fred A. Best is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Radiance & Radiometric calibration. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 85 publications receiving 1594 citations.
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Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer. Part I: Instrument Design
Robert O. Knuteson,Henry E. Revercomb,Fred A. Best,N. C. Ciganovich,R. G. Dedecker,T. P. Dirkx,S. C. Ellington,Wayne F. Feltz,Raymond K. Garcia,H. B. Howell,William L. Smith,J. F. Short,David C. Tobin +12 more
TL;DR: The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) was designed and fabricated by the University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center (UW-SSEC) for the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program as mentioned in this paper.
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Achieving Climate Change Absolute Accuracy in Orbit
Bruce A. Wielicki,David F. Young,Martin G. Mlynczak,Kurt Thome,Stephen S. Leroy,James M. Corliss,James G. Anderson,Chi O. Ao,Richard Bantges,Fred A. Best,Kevin W. Bowman,Helen Brindley,James J. Butler,William D. Collins,J. A. Dykema,David R. Doelling,Daniel Feldman,Nigel Fox,Xianglei Huang,Robert E. Holz,Yi Huang,Zhonghai Jin,D. Jennings,David G. Johnson,K. Jucks,Seiji Kato,D. B. Kirk-Davidoff,Robert O. Knuteson,Greg Kopp,David P. Kratz,Xu Liu,Constantine Lukashin,Anthony J. Mannucci,Nipa Phojanamongkolkij,Peter Pilewskie,Venkatachalam Ramaswamy,Henry E. Revercomb,Joseph P. Rice,Y. Roberts,Carlos M. Roithmayr,Fred G. Rose,Stephen P. Sandford,Eric L. Shirley,William L. Smith,Brian J. Soden,P. W. Speth,Wenbo Sun,Patrick C. Taylor,David C. Tobin,Xiaoxiong Xiong +49 more
TL;DR: The Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) mission as discussed by the authors provides a calibration laboratory in orbit for the purpose of accurately measuring and attributing climate change.
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Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer. Part II: Instrument Performance
Robert O. Knuteson,Henry E. Revercomb,Fred A. Best,N. C. Ciganovich,R. G. Dedecker,T. P. Dirkx,S. C. Ellington,Wayne F. Feltz,Raymond K. Garcia,H. B. Howell,William L. Smith,J. F. Short,David C. Tobin +12 more
TL;DR: The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) was developed for the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program by UW-SSEC as discussed by the authors.
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The Marine-Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer: A High-Accuracy, Seagoing Infrared Spectroradiometer
TL;DR: The Marine-Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M-AERI) as discussed by the authors is a state-of-the-art, self-calibrating, seagoing Fourier-transform interferometric infrared spectroradiometer that is deployed on marine platforms to measure the emission spectra from the sea surface and marine atmosphere.
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Downwelling spectral radiance observations at the SHEBA ice station: Water vapor continuum measurements from 17 to 26μm
D. C. Tobin,Fred A. Best,Patrick D. Brown,Shepard A. Clough,R. G. Dedecker,Robert G. Ellingson,Raymond K. Garcia,H. B. Howell,Robert O. Knuteson,Eli J. Mlawer,Henry E. Revercomb,J. F. Short,P. Van Delst,Von P. Walden +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, an Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) with extended longwave spectral coverage has been deployed at the SHEBA ice station 300 miles north of the Alaskan coast to measure downwelling radiances at wavelengths of 3 to 26 μm (380 to 3000 cm−1).