Radar probing of cirrus and contrails: insights from 2D model simulations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 975-978

  Sassen, Kenneth ^a   Khvorostyanov, Vitaly I ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b CENTRAL AEROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY   (Russian Federation)

^c Corp 1 ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; ICE PROBLEMS; MILLIMETER WAVES; RADAR; REFLECTION; TRACKING RADAR;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; CONTRAIL CLOUDS; ICE CLOUDS; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH RADARS; RADAR PROBING; MICRON-SIZED PARTICLES; MICROPHYSICS; MILLIMETER WAVELENGTH; MULTIPLE LEVELS; QUANTITATIVE DATA; RADAR REFLECTIVITIES; VERTICAL VARIATION;

METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MODEL; CONTRAIL; RADAR;

EID: 0032047273     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00731     Document Type: Article

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