Remote sensing of cirrus cloud parameters based on a 0.63 - 3.7 μm radiance correlation technique applied to AVHRR data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2437-2440

  Ou, S C ^a   Liou, K N ^a   King, M D ^b   Tsay, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); INFERENCE ENGINES;

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS; CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTAL CLOUDS; MEAN SIZE EFFECT; OPTICAL DEPTHS; RADIANCE CORRELATION TECHNIQUE; CORRELATION TECHNIQUES; EFFECTIVE SIZE; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; IN-SITU ANALYSIS; IN-SITU DATA; RADIATIVE TRANSFER CALCULATIONS;

CLOUDS;

AVHRR; CIRRUS; OPTICAL DEPTH;

EID: 0033385906     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900554     Document Type: Article

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