Satellite microphysical retrievals for land-based fog with validation by balloon profiling

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 810-829

  Wetzel, Melanie A ^a,c   Borys, Randolph D ^a   Xu, Ling E ^a,b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Info Proc Syst California Inc   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; DROPLET SIZE; FOG MICROPHYSICS; GOES-8; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT; SATELLITE INSTRUMENT;

EID: 0030424424     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1996)035<0810:SMRFLB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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