Remote sensing of cloud properties using MODIS airborne simulator imagery during SUCCESS: 3. Cloud Overlap

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 105, Issue D9, 2000, Pages 11793-11804

  Baum, Bryan A ^a,c   Spinhirne, James D ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

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EID: 16644400824     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999JD901091     Document Type: Article

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