A sub-tropical cirrus clouds climatology from Reunion Island (21°S, 55°E) lidar data set

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Cadet, B ^a   Goldfarb, L ^a   Faduilhe, D ^a   Baldy, S ^a   Giraud, V ^b   Keckhut, P ^a   Rechou A ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Climatology; Lidar; Tropical cirrus

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; DATA ACQUISITION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL RADAR;

CIRRUS CLOUDS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CIRRUS; CLOUD COVER; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR;

REUNION;

EID: 0038674951     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016342     Document Type: Article

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