Trade wind cumuli statistics in clean and polluted air over the Indian Ocean from in situ and remote sensing measurements

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  McFarquhar, Greg M ^a   Platnick, Steven ^b   Di Girolamo, Larry ^a   Wang, Hailong ^a   Wind, Gala ^c   Zhao, Guangyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c L 3 Communications Government Services Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

0305 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Aerosols and particles (0345, 4801); 0320 Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Cloud physics and chemistry; 1610 Global Change: Atmosphere (0315, 0325); 3359 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Radiative processes; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote Sensing

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTION; CLOUDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); METEOROLOGY; RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; COMMERCE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD PROPERTIES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; TRADE WINDS;

WIND EFFECTS; REMOTE SENSING;

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLOUD COVER; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL DEPTH; REMOTE SENSING; TRADE WIND;

INDIAN OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

AEROSOL CONCENTRATION; CLOUD OPTICAL THICKNESS; CLOUD TOP HEIGHTS; METEOROLOGICAL EFFECTS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; TOP OF THE ATMOSPHERES; TRADE-WIND CUMULUS;

EID: 13244256873     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020412     Document Type: Article

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