Cloud-top heights from GOES-8 and GOES-9 stereoscopic imagery

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 405-413

  Wylie, Donald P ^a   Santek, David ^a   Starr, David O'C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD TOP HEIGHT; GOES; SATELLITE MEASUREMENT; STEREOSCOPE; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 0031848501     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0405:CTHFGA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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