Lidar observed characteristics of the tropical cirrus clouds

Radio Science

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Sivakumar, V ^a   Bhavanikumar, Y ^a   Rao, P B ^b   Mizutani, K ^c   Aoki, T ^c   Yasui, M ^c   Itabe, T ^c  

^a National MST Radar Facility   (India)

^b NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

^c National Institute of Information and Communications Technology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Cloud physics and chemistry; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING; TROPOSPHERE;

LINEAR DEPOLARIZATION RATIO; SCATTERING RATIO; TROPICAL CIRRUS CLOUDS;

RADIO WAVES;

EID: 0842290232     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002rs002719     Document Type: Article

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