Sensitivity of retrieved POLDER directional cloud optical thickness to various ice particle models

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 109-112

  Doutriaux Boucher, Marie ^a   Buriez, Jean Claude ^a   Brogniez, Gérard ^a   C Labonnote, Laurent ^a   Baran, Anthony J ^b  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; CLOUDS; FRACTALS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS;

GEOPHYSICS;

EID: 0034352577     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010870     Document Type: Article

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