Radiance and cloud analyses from GOES-VAS dwell soundings

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1480-1490

  Wylie, Donald P ^a   Woolf, Harold M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMISSIVITY; GOES; RADIANCE;

EID: 0033748870     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(2000)039<1480:RACAFG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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