On the radiative properties of contrail cirrus

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1161-1164

  Liou, K N ^a   Yang, P ^a   Takano, Y ^a   Sassen, K ^b   Charlock, T ^c   Arnott, W ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDENSATION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT REFLECTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TROPOSPHERE; CLOUDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

ALBEDO; CHRISTIANSEN EFFECT; CIRRUS CLOUDS; CONTRAILS; CHRISTIANSEN EFFECTS; EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; ICE CRYSTAL SHAPES; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SCATTERING PHASE FUNCTION; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDO;

CLOUDS; ICE;

CONTRAIL CIRRUS; ICE CRYSTAL SIZE; RADIATIVE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0032522243     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL03508     Document Type: Article

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