CRISTA observations of cirrus clouds around the tropopause

Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres

Volumn 107, Issue D23, 2002, Pages

  Spang, Reinhold ^a,d   Eidmann, Gunnar ^a   Riese, Martin ^a   Offermann, Dirk ^a   Preusse, Peter ^a   Pfister, Leonhard ^b,e   Wang, Pi Huan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

0320 atmospheric composition and structure: Cloud physics and chemistry; 3314 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Convective processes; 3360 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Remote sensing; 3362 meteorology and atmospheric dynamics: Stratosphere troposphere interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642331717     PISSN: 2169897X     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001JD000698     Document Type: Article

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