The cloudy atmospheric boundary layer over the subtropical South Atlantic Ocean: Airborne-spaceborne lidar observations and numerical simulations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2003, Pages

  Cosma Averseng, Stéphanie ^a   Flamant, Cyrille ^a   Pelon, Jacques ^a   Palm, Stephen P ^b   Schwemmer, Geary K ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric boundary layer; Lidar; Lidar in space technology experiment; Meso NH numerical simulations; Subtropical South Atlantic Ocean

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; LIDAR; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 0346461690     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jd002368     Document Type: Article

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