Radiative effect of cirrus clouds in Meteosat Second Generation Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager channels

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 103, Issue D18, 1998, Pages 23217-23230

  Wiegner, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; METEOSAT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0032572990     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98JD02123     Document Type: Article

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