The prospect for remote sensing of cirrus clouds with a submillimeter-wave spectrometer

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 514-525

  Evans, K Franklin ^a   Evans, Aaron H ^a   Nolt, Ira G ^b   Marshall, B Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c GATS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 0032820654     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1999)038<0514:TPFRSO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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