Thin and subvisual tropopause tropical cirrus: Observations and radiative impacts

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1841-1853

  McFarquhar, Greg M ^a   Heymsfield, Andrew J ^a   Spinhirne, James ^b   Hart, Bill ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; ICE; INFRARED RADIATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC EXPERIMENT; CIRRUS; DEEP CONVECTION; FREQUENCY OF OCCURRENCE; MEAN OPTICAL DEPTH; MICROPHYSICAL OBSERVATION; RADIATIVE FORCING; STRATOSPHERIC AEROSOL AND GAS EXPERIMENT;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TROPOPAUSE;

EID: 0034209715     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2000)057<1841:TASTTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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