Radiative effects of various cloud types as classified by the split window technique over the Eastern Sub-tropical Pacific derived from collocated ERBE and AVHRR data

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1383-1394

  Inoue, Toshiro ^a   Ackerman, Steven A ^b  

^a JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVHRR; CLEAR SKY; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; CLOUD RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING; SPLIT WINDOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036968853     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.80.1383     Document Type: Article

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