Joint statistics of photon pathlength and cloud optical depth

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1425-1428

  Min, Qilong ^a   Harrison, Lee ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CLOUDS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; ROTATING SHADOWBAND SPECTRORADIOMETER (RSS);

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; OPTICAL DEPTH; SPECTROMETRY; SURFACE PRESSURE;

CLOUD OPTICAL DEPTH; JOINT STATISTICS; MODERATE RESOLUTION; MULTIPLE LAYERS; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SMALL VARIATIONS; SOUTHERN GREAT PLAINS; SPECTRO-RADIOMETERS;

EID: 0033562251     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900246     Document Type: Article

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