The cloudsat mission and the A-Train: A new dimension of space-based observations of clouds and precipitation

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Stephens, Graeme L ^a   Vane, Deborah G ^b   Boain, Ronald J ^b   Mace, Gerald G ^c   Sassen, Kenneth ^c   Wang, Zhien ^c   Illingworth, Anthony J ^d   O'Connor, Ewan J ^d   Rossow, William B ^e   Durden, Stephen L ^b   Miller, Steven D ^f   Austin, Richard T ^a   Benedetti, Angela ^a   Mitrescu, Cristian ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^e NASA GODDARD INSTITUTE FOR SPACE STUDIES   (United States)

^f NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; OBSERVATORIES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); WATER;

CLOUD MASSES;

CLOUDS;

EID: 0036994078     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/bams-83-12-1771     Document Type: Article

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