Modeling of submillimeter passive remote sensing of cirrus clouds

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 184-205

  Evans, K Franklin ^a   Walter, Steven J ^b   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^c   Deeter, Merritt N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DEPRESSION; CIRRUS CLOUDS;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD; ICE MASS; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; WAVE FREQUENCY;

EID: 0032004312     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1998)037<0184:MOSPRS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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