Tropical cirrus cloud properties derived from TOGA/COARE airborne polarization lidar

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 673-676

  Sassen, Kenneth ^a   Benson, Randall P ^a   Spinhirne, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRRUS; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; TOGA-COARE;

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA REDUCTION; ICE; OPTICAL RADAR; POLARIZATION; THUNDERSTORMS; TROPOSPHERE;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; PINATUBO VOLCANIC AEROSOL; TROPOPAUSE;

CLOUDS;

CIRRUS CLOUDS; ICE CRYSTAL SHAPES; LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIOS; THUNDERSTORM ANVILS; TROPICAL CIRRUS; TROPICAL TROPOPAUSE; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS; WESTERN PACIFIC;

EID: 0034353376     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010946     Document Type: Article

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