Comparison of stratus cloud properties deduced from surface, GOES, and aircraft data during the March 2000 ARM cloud IOP

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 3265-3284

  Dong, Xiquan ^a   Minnis, Patrick ^a   Mace, Gerald G ^a   Smith, William L Jr ^a   Poellot, Michael ^a   Marchand, Roger T ^a   Rapp, Anita D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROMETERS; RADIOMETERS; SOLAR RADIATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLOUD DROPLETS;

CLOUDS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD DROPLET; CLOUD MICROPHYSICS; GOES; OPTICAL DEPTH; STRATUS;

EID: 0036937468     PISSN: 00224928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0469(2002)059<3265:COSCPD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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