Observations of three-dimensional radiative effects that influence MODIS cloud optical thickness retrievals

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1607-1618

  Várnai, Tamás ^a   Marshak, Alexander ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SPECTROMETERS;

OPTICAL THICKNESS RETRIEVAL;

CLOUDS;

CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; INFRARED IMAGERY; OPTICAL DEPTH;

EID: 0036268939     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<1607:OOTDRE>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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