The Landsat scale break in stratocumulus as a three-dimensional radiative transfer effect: Implications for cloud remote sensing

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 241-260

  Davis, Anthony ^a,b   Marshak, Alexander ^a,b   Cahalan, Robert ^a   Wiscombe, Warren ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PROPERTIES; LANDSAT; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SCALE BREAK; SCALE PARAMETERS; STRATOCUMULUS;

EID: 0030829069     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(1997)054<0241:TLSBIS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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