Operational Calibration of the Imagers and Sounders
on the GOES-8 and -9 Satellites, Page 20

Michael Weinreb, Michael Jamieson, Nancy Fulton, Yen Chen, Joy Xie Johnson,
James Bremer, Carl Smith, and Jeanette Baucom

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