Measurements of water vapor and high clouds over the Tibetan Plateau with the Terra MODIS instrument

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 4 PART II, 2003, Pages 895-900

  Gao, Bo Cai ^a   Yang, Ping ^b   Guo, Guang ^b   Park, Seon K ^c   Wiscombe, Warren J ^d   Chen, Baode ^d,e  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrus clouds; Meteorology; Remote sensing; Tibetan Plateau; Water vapor

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLOUDS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METEOROLOGY; MOISTURE; SOLAR RADIATION; VAPORS; WATER;

CIRRUS CLOUD; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0037560815     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.810704     Document Type: Letter

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