Remote sounding of multilayer cirrus cloud systems using AVHRR data collected during FIRE-II-IFO

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 241-254

  Ou, S C ^a   Liou, K N ^a   Caudill, T R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; CIRRUS; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0031861999     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450-37.3.241     Document Type: Article

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